In Time Commences in Xibalba Luis de Lión also uses identical parallelism since in the beginning of each chapter he talks about the town in which the book is taking place. The Popol Vuh uses this parallelism many times in the book and Luis de Lión’s use of it is not accidental. Although this may be a subtle similarity due to the fact it is only at the beginning of each chapter it is significant because it is present in every chapter from beginning to end. Luis de Lión could have started every chapter any way but he chose to talk about the town specifically at the beginning of each chapter. In Parallel Worlds by Kerry Hull and Michael Carrasco they say and quote, “According to this theory, poetics is the function of language that is most prominent in poetry, but it is not “limited to poetry, nor is the poetic function the only function found in poetry” (Berlin 1992: 9),”[3] meaning that poetics are not limited to just poetry and that it can apply other things such as books like Time Commences in Xibalba, which is mainly a prosaic book but has poetic elements, specifically Maya poetics.. Even though Time Commences in Xibalba is not a poetic novel, it incorporates poetic structures from the Popol Vuh into the book and uses a disjointed structure of organizing the book.
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