K'iche' Maya Oral History Project

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The narrator tells the story about a family and neighbors gathering together for a man's wake. During the wake, the man awoke, and began to speak to those present. He exhorted those who heard him to live virtuous lives so they would go to heaven when they died.

Publication Date

1-1-1968

Publisher

Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico

Keywords

Afterlife; repentence; religion

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Oral History #058: The Good Rewarded and the Bad Punished

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