The following is a list of the books, videos and websites I used in researching the Nightkeepers’ world.  If you have a reference you’d like to recommend, please email me the info!  Similarly, let me know if/when any of the links are broken.  I’ll try to keep them up to date, but you know how it is.  This list will be updated approximately semi-annually, to reflect the new resources used in each of the books.

REFERENCES

 

 

Maya History and Language

Books

**Benedict G, The Mayan Prophecies for 2012, Sterling, NY, 2008.

Christenson AJ, Popol Vuh: the Sacred Book of the Maya, O Books, New York, 2003.

Freidel D, Schele L and Parker J, Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman’s Path, William Morrow, New York, 1993.

**Ganieri A, Mesoamerican Myth: a Treasury of Central American Legends, Art, and History, Chartwell Books, NJ, 2007.

**Janson T, Maya Nature, Vista Publications, Guatemala, 2001.

**Katz F, The Ancient American Civilizations, Castle Books, NJ, 2004.

Lee JF, The Maya Balaam Legend, Kessinger Publishing, date unknown.

**Lowery L and Keep R, The Chocolate Tree: A Mayan Folktale, Millbrook Press, MN, 2009.

**McNeil CL (ed), Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao, University Press of Florida, FL, 2006.

Miller M and Taube K, An Illustrated Dictionary of The Gods and Symbols of the Ancient Maya, Thames & Hudson, London, 1993.

Montgomery J, Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs, Hippocrene Books, New York, 2002.

Montgomery J, How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs, Hippocrene Books, New York, 2002.

Montgomery J, Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, Hippocrene Books, New York, 2004.

Phillips C (ed), The Complete Illustrated History of the Aztec & Maya, Hermes House, London, 2006.

**Pohl J and Robinson CM III, Aztecs & Conquistadores: The Spanish Invasion & the collapse of the Aztec Empire, Osprey Publishing, UK, 2005.

**Tompkins P, This Tree Grows Out Of Hell: Mesoamerica & the Search for the Magical Body, Sterling, NY, 2008.

Schele L and Freidel D, A Forest of Kings: the Untold Story of the Ancient Maya, William Morrow, New York, 1990.

Schele L and Miller ME, The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art, George Braziller Inc., New York, 1986.

**Schlesinger V, Animals & Plants of the Ancient Maya, a Guide, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2001.

**Whittington ME (ed), The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame, Thames & Hudson, New York, 2001.

 

Videos

NOVA: Cracking the Maya code, WGBH Educational Foundation, 2008.

Deep Sea Detectives: Secret Underwater Caves, A&E Television Networks, DVD AAE-74162, 2004.

Digging for the Truth: Passage to the Maya Underworld, A&E Television Networks, DVD AAE-74197, 2005.

Cities of the Underworld: Maya Underground, A&E Television Networks, DVD AAE-110420, 2008.

 

Websites

Art:
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Maya/Maya_Aztec_Main.html    http://www.utexas.edu/courses/wilson/ant304/projects/projects98/gaffordp/art.html
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/explore/bonampak.html
http://www.artigua.com/directory/Pre-Columbian:Mayan_Territories40.html
** http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/maya/gods.htm 


Archaeology:
**http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2008-06-22-maya-kiuic_N.htm?se=yahoorefer
** http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26208873/
** http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071203-maya-vase.html
**http://books.google.com/books?id=FUGUBVmg69YC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=maya+murder&source=web...


Astronomy:
http://www.michielb.nl/maya/astro.html
(Also see astronomy links under ‘Other Contemporary References’ below)


Caves:
http://www.yucatantoday.com/destinations/eng-caves.htm
http://www.belizex.com/tunichil_muknal.htm


Cenotes:
http://www.dattapeetham.com/india/tours/mexico/mexico_photos5.html
http://www.internet-at-work.com/hos_mcgrane/chichen/chichen_cenote.html
http://orlandosentinel.p2ionline.com/specialsections/popup/index.aspx?webstoryid=12005660&area=SS&type=adv&AdgroupID=95413&AdID=1657502
http://www.yucatantoday.com/destinations/eng-cenotes.htm


Chocolate:
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacao
** http://www.maya-archaeology.org/pre-Columbian_Mesoamerican_Mayan_ethno...
** http://www.authenticmaya.com/cacao.htm
** http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp/things/history.htm
** http://www.mythinglinks.org/ip~cacao.html
** http://www.chocolove.com/Ecuador.htm


Dictionaries and Hieroglyphs:
http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/dictionary/christenson/quidic_complete.pdf
http://www.famsi.org/reports/96072/index.html 
** http://www.ancientscripts.com/maya.html
**http://research.famsi.org/montgomery_dictionary/mt_entry.php?id=1371&lsearch=ch&search
** http://www.jstor.org/pss/276312?cookieSet=1


Lost King of the Maya:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2804maya.html


Maya Calendar:          
http://exodus2006.com/6maya.htm
http://www.jaguar-sun.com/calendr.html
http://www.johnpratt.com/items/calendar/mayan/daynames.html
http://resonateview.org/places/toybox/mayan/gal-sign/gal-sign3.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar


Maya Civilization and Culture:          
http://www.indians.org/welker/maya.htm
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576077/Maya_Civilization.html
**http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/index.php?id=4414
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_death_rituals


Maya Class Structure:
http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Article/427711


Maya Mythology:      
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/mmp/mmp4.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_mythology
http://www.crystalinks.com/mayangods.html
http://www.mayavase.com/tran/trans.html
**http://www.blueroadrunner.com/camazotz.htm
** http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/9944/Ah-Kin#tab=active~checked%2Citems~checked&title=Ah%20Kin%20--%20Britannica%20Online%20Encyclopedia
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah_Kin
** http://www.godchecker.com 
** http://www.csms.ca/K'awiil.htm
** http://everything2.com/e2node/Mayan%2520Mythology
**http://books.google.com/books?id=AmQgCfO0PDYC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=ah+kin+underworld&source=web...


Maya Prophecies:       
http://members.shaw.ca/mjfinley/katun.html 
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/cbc/cbc33.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/cbc/index.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/cbc/cbc27.htm
http://members.shaw.ca/mjfinley/mainmaya.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/mayanprophecies.html
http://www.yoyita.com/Maya_prophecy_Dresden_codex.php


Maya Ruins:   
http://www.copanhonduras.org/ruins.htm
http://mayaruins.com/copan/a1_1237.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1206_021206_TVMayanTemple.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminaljuyu
**http://archaeology.suite101.com/article.cfm/chichen_itza
**http://www.americanegypt.com/feature/cities/chichenitza/castillo.htm
**http://www.ocasa.org/MayanPyramid.htm
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulum
** http://www.tulum-tour.com/
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcaret
** http://www.xel-ha-tour.com/
** http://www.xelha.com/mayan-wall.php
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xel-H%C3%A1
** http://www.locogringo.com/past_spotlights/aug2002.html
** http://www.differentworld.com/mexico/areas/caribbean-coast/tulum/guide.htm
** http://www.athenapub.com/tulumint.htm
** http://muyil.smv.org/new_page_18.htm
** http://www.playa.info/playa-del-carmen-info-mayan-ruins-of-tulum.html
** http://www.materialsystems.org/?page_id=240


Maya Sacrifice:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080123/sc_nm/mexico_sacrifice_dc


Maya Warfare:           
http://maya.csuhayward.edu/yaxuna/warfare.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0310200/mayawp.html 


Pathfinders of Ancient Mesoamerica:
http://web1.caryacademy.org/library/pathfinders/mesoamerica.htm


**The Dresden Codex:
the book of Mayan astronomy (link broken)


Xibalba:
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xibalba#Structure

 

 

The 2012 Doomsday

Books

**Andrews A and Andrews C, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to 2012: an ancient look at a critical time, Penguin Group, NY, 2008.

**Brown S, End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World, Dutton, NY, 2008.

Geryl P, The World Cataclysm in 2012: The Maya Countdown to the End of Our World, Adventures Unlimited Press, Illinois, 2005.

Jenkins JM, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, Bear & Company, Vermont, 1998.

**Sitchin Z, Genesis Revisited: Is Modern Science Catching Up With Ancient Knowledge? Bear & Co, VT, 2002.

 

Videos

Decoding the Past: Doomsday 2012, the End of Days, A&E Television Networks, DVD AAE-77314, 2007.

Decoding the Past: Mayan Doomsday Prophecy, A&E Television Networks, DVD AAE-76489, 2006.

 

Websites

2012 A.D.:
http://www.halexandria.org/dward415.htm

2012: The World Will NOT End:
http://www.biopark.org/peru/mayan-calendar.html

2012: Dire Gnosis:
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/ December 21, 2012 (they have t-shirts, too <G>):
http://www.december212012.com/articles/news/Turning_In_The_Widening_Gyre.htm

The Doomsday Guide:
http://www.doomsdayguide.org/Mystery/unexplained_mayan_pyramids.htm

End of the World Predictions in our Near Future:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl1.htm

End Times Prophecy:
http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_prophecy_12-21-2012.htm
http://skepdic.com/maya.html

Fractal Time and the I Ching:
http://survive2012.com/why_2012_fractal.php

How To Survive 2012:
http://www.howtosurvive2012.com/htm/laby_04.htm

The Living Prophecy:
http://www.13moon.com/prophecy%20page.htm

Mayan Majix:
http://www.mayanmajix.com/art2221.html

** http://www.mayanmajix.com/art1960.html

Mayan Prophecy- 2012:
http://skepdic.com/maya.html

Prophecies and Predictions:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl1.htm

Shaman Pilgrimage:
http://www.indigokinder.de/die_indigo_kinder_skulls_english.htm

Timewave Zero:
http://www.alternativeculture.com/spirit/timewave.htm

UFO's and 2012: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:yKnrkPEjD_wJ:www.timestar.org/kosmic1.htm+long+count+deci...

Venus Crossing and the Maya:
http://www.world-mysteries.com/gw_gdj.htm

Web-bot Predictions:
http://netthetruthonline.blogspot.com/2007/03/web-bot-predicts-future-2012.html

Why 2012?:
http://www.levity.com/eschaton/Why2012.html

 

 

Other Historical References

Books

**Budge EMW (ed), The Book of the Dead: The Hieroglyphic Transcript and Translation into English of the Ancient Egyptian Papyrus of Ani, Gramercy Books, NY 1960 (orig pub 1895).

**Bunson M, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, Grammecy Books, NY, 1991.

Davies WV, Reading the Past: Egyptian Hieroglyphs, British Museum Press, London, 1993.

Feder KL, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, Mayfield Publishing, Toronto, 1990.

Jenkins JM and Matz M, Pyramid of Fire: the Lost Aztec Codex, Bear & Company, Vermont, 2004.

**Kemp B, How to Read: The Egyptian Book of the Dead, WW Norton, NY, 2008.

Noble DG, In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma, School of Research Press, New Mexico, 2004.

Pellegrino C, Unearthing Atlantis: an Archaeological Odyssey, Random House, New York, 1991.

Von Daniken E, Chariots of the Gods?, Berkeley Books, New York, 1968.

Williams S, Fantastic Archaeology: the Wild Side of North American Prehistory, University of Pennsylvania Press, PA, 1991.

 

Videos

The Mystery of Chaco Canyon, TV documentary narrated by Robert Redford, 1999.

 

Websites

Aztec:
** http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00875/text/AztecA.htm
** http://www.greatdreams.com/end-world.htm
** http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/AZTECS.HTM

Chaco Canyon pteroglyphs:
http://www.chaco.com/park/photos/index.html

Egyptology:
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pantheon
** http://www.amazeingart.com/seven-wonders/tutankhamun.html

**Saturn mythology:
http://www.crystalinks.com/saturnmyth.html

 

 

Other Contemporary References

Books

**Castleden R, Natural Disasters That Changed The World, Chartwell Books, NJ, 2007.

Coe A, Archaeological Mexico: a Traveler’s Guide to Ancient Cities and Sacred Sites, Moon Publications, California, 1998.

**Gallagher AM, The Wicca Bible: the definitive guide to magic and the craft, Sterling, NY, 2005.

Hall E, University of Texas: Off the Record, College Prowler Press, Pennsylvania, 2005.

Harbert N, Fodor’s New Mexico, 5th ed., Compass American Guides, New York, 2004.

Harris R, Hidden Cancun & The Yucatan, Ulysses Press, California, 2006.

**Hoyer D, Recipes from the Yucatan Region: Mayan Cuisine, Gibbs Smith Publishing, UT, 2008.

Hylton H and Rossie C, Insiders’ Guide to Austin, 5th ed., Insiders’ Guide Press, Connecticut, 2006.

Pohl JM, Exploring Mesoamerica: Places in Time, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999.

Sire JW, The Universe Next Door: a Basic Worldview Catalog, 4th ed., InterVarsity Press, Illinois, 2004.

Stuart GE and Swanson W, Ancient Mexico: Aztec, Mixtec, and Maya Landscapes, Rutgers Press, New Jersey, 1992.

 

Videos

Ancient Mysteries: the Lost People of Chaco Canyon, Readers Digest Presents, 1995.

Man vs. Wild: Ecuador, Discovery Channel, first aired 7/13/2007.

 

Websites

2012 in X-Files Mythology:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20195210_2,00.html


Ceiba Tree:
http://stjohnbeachguide.com/Kapok.htm


End of Days misc:
** http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=175552


Equinox and Solstice Charts by Year:
http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/2008.shtml


Gangs in Florida:
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/gangs/fl.html


**Glyph jewelry:
http://www.clearlight.com/bolaman/mayaglph.htm


**Krav Maga:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_Maga


Soldiers/Militia in Mexico:
**http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080716.TUL...
** http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037085/posts


Stellar Events:
http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy_calendar_2008.html

http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy_calendar_2009.html
http://www.philharrington.net/planets.pdf
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse  
** http://www.qppstudio.net/ephemeris/astronomical-2009-12.htm
** http://home.att.net/~tangents/tech/astrocal.htm
** http://astroclub.tau.ac.il/ephem/PlanetsConj/index.php?Year=2009
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moon


Sven’s dune buggy:
** http://www.desertrides.com/features/vehicles/penhall_4seat/index.php


Travel to Mexico:
http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/tips_1232.html

** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Riviera


Vizcaya Gardens:
http://www.gagme.com/greg/vacation/2003/vizcaya/slideshow.php?sect=vizcaya&fn=vizcaya11.jpg

 

Videos

Modern Marvels: Chocolate, season 13, episode 25, 2007.