About the mysterious peoples of Central and South America - Maya, Aztecs, Incas, Muisca, Quiche, Toltecs and others tell both folklore works of these tribes ("Popol-Vuh," "Valley of Castles," "Genealogy of the Lords of Totonicapan") and evidence of contemporaries of the conquest of America by Europeans (Diego de Lo anda, "Gods and Mayan People"). The reader will get acquainted not only with the mythology and ethnography of the natives of the New World, but also find answers to many questions that were posed to modern researchers by amazing civilizations that died in the clash of the Old and New Worlds.