A traditional Mayan tale which reveals how the cuckoo lost her beautiful feathers.

A humorous and gory look at the ancient Aztec tradition of sacrificing enemy warriors to the gods.

"This authoritative volume has been revised throughout and expanded, with new images and accounts of the major discoveries of recent years. Updates begin with the earliest periods: one of the enduring puzzles surrounding Mexican prehistory, the origins of maize farming, has at last been solved. There are insights into the latest finds at the Olmec sites at Chiapas de Corzo and Zazacatla. The classic city of Teotihuacan continues to yield discoveries,...

Rabbit outwits Coyote in this Zapotec tale which explains why coyotes howl at the moon.

Relates the traditional Cora Indian tale in which Opossum outwits the larger and more powerful Iguana and returns the stolen fire to the people of the earth.

Coyote is featured in each of these Aztec interpretations of Aesop's fables.

When Chac, the great lord who makes rain, takes a disobedient boy as his servant, they are both in for trouble.

In a newspaper format tells the story of the Aztecs from 1100 to the Spanish conquest.

While visiting his grandfather just before Christmas, Jack takes an amazing trip back to the time of the Aztecs and must solve a series of puzzles before finding his way back home.