Renewing the Maya WorldEach year in the Highland Guatemala town of Santiago Momostenango, Maya religious societies, dance teams, and cofradas perform the annual cycle of rituals and festivals prescribed by Costumbre (syncretized Maya Christian religion), which serves to renew the cosmic order. In this richly detailed ethnography, Garrett Cook explores how these festivals of Jesucristo and the saints derive from and reenact three major ancient Maya creation myths, thus