The Mayans have long fascinated modern readers with their complex written language, sophisticated mathematics, and advanced astronomy. In Guatemala in 1558, a young Mayan K’iche’ man transcribed what he called a sacred book that we can no longer see.” This was the Popul Vuh, the Mayans' written account of the creation of the universe, the gods and demi-gods who occupied that universe, and the story of how man was created by them. Furthermore, it traced, generation by generation, the lineage of the Mayan lords down to their imprisonment and torture by the Spanish invaders. Considered the Mayan bible, the Popol Vuh appears here in an authoritative, gorgeously illustrated version by noted Maya anthropologist Victor Montejo, who has captured all the drama and excitement of one of the world’s great creation stories.

維剋多·濛特霍是一名傑齣的薩波特剋-瑪雅/危地馬拉人類學傢、作傢，現任加利福尼亞大學美洲原住民研究學院教授。在長期旅居外地之後，他曾迴到危地馬拉，為爭取原住民的權利而鬥爭。他還著有另外一部作品：《素色之花：瑪雅公主》，該書由地木（Groundwood）齣版社齣版。維剋多·濛特霍現居住於加利福尼亞戴維斯分校。

路易斯·加雷，著名的尼加拉瓜插畫傢。為瞭繪製本書中的插圖，他專門前往危地馬拉，做瞭六個月時間的研究。他還為《玉與鐵》、《手中之種》、《錶兄弟》和《飛迴傢的阿爾弗雷迪托》等書繪製過插圖。路易斯·加雷是拉丁美洲目前活躍的最優秀的年輕插畫傢之一，現居住於墨西哥。