If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino: “The legendary "Father of Stories" is said to be "the reincarnation of Homer, of the storyteller of the Arabian Nights, of the author of the Popol Vuh, as well as of Alexandre Dumas and James Joyce."”
Cosmos by Alexander von Humboldt: “Quoted as chapter epigraph: "...Are they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also be gods?" —The Popol Vuh of the Quiche Maya”