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There is a limited amount of information on Mayan culture because in the Common Era the Spanish instituted a policy of killing all Mayan priests and burning their books. Catholic missionaries infact destroyed all but four of their sacred bark-paper books in the 16th century. Information was mainly passed down through generations and generations by a highly detailed hierogliphic writing system.
<em>Hope this helps and good luck!</em>
in Joy Harjo's "New Orleans", the line "beaten silver paths" refers to the streets of such city. She remembers of certain Spanish conqueror, De Soto,who came to this lands searching for, and constantly states that he wouldn't find it here. Maybe is a mock to that fact.
The "silver blades and crosses" refers to the sword and crucifix of the conqueror, who drawn in the Mississippi river which dreamt of those items. Maybe this means that the streets of New Orleans were made of the things and dreams of the many conquerors who came to that land in search for gold and failed.
