Motif-Index of Luis Rosado Vega´s Mayan Legends

The Mayan Culture, long recognised as among the most advanced indigenous groups of Latin America, possesses a rich heritage of mythology and traditions still very apparent in the Yacatan Peninsula at the closing of the twentieth century. Although Mayan legends have been studied and published as early as 1844, there exists no extensive motif-index dealing with the topic. This work attemps to help fill that need by indexing the works of Yacatecan writer Luis Rosaldo Vega.