Ola, and bienvenidos Aestepidio de simple stories in Spanish.

In their attempts to convert the Native peoples of the Americas to Christianity, Catholic missionaries destroyed many elements of pre-Hispanic cultures, including their books.

The Mayan culture in particular their books and documents concerning their mythology, astronomy, history,

had hundreds, if not thousands,

of books and documents concerning their mythology, astronomy, history, and religion.

Thankfully, one person thought

to record this information and hide it.

That book, El Popolvoo, was found and preserved

by a sympathetic friar. Today you can even read it online.

This story is told in the third person and the past tense.

Important vocabulary in the story includes

Kodese, which is a codex or ancient text,

Frey, meaning friar, language or tongue, and lo, which within a sentence means it.

I hope you enjoy.

El Popol Voo.

In the annual,

mil Quinientos, five-tenth.

In what I is the nation of Guatemala,

a ombre decidio escribier the historians of the Pueblo Maya.

The ombre escribio in Kiche,

the linguinative of the Pueblo Maya.

But utiliseo, the alphabeto Latino and the orthography is spaniela.

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