Written by a nameless author in the mid 16th century in the Quiché language with Latin characters, it was discovered in the early 18th century by the Dominican friar, Francisco Ximénez when he directed the convent of Santo Tomás Chuilá, or Chichicastenango, Guatemala. The cleric, an expert in Indian languages, made a copy of the original, with a Spanish translation, in two columns, entitled "Here begin the stories of the origins of this province of Guatemala" included in the Arte de las tres Lenguas, the second volume of his work Tesoro de las lenguas Cakchiquel, Quiché and Tzutuhil. Later, he revised and corrected the translation to produce a second version, which he included in the first volume of his Historia de la Provincia de San Vicente de Chiapas y Guatemala. The Popol Vuh, also called Manuscrito de Chichicastenango, Libro Sagrado, Libro del Consejo, Libro del Común or Libro Nacional de los Quichés is one of the most valuable legacies of pre-Hispanic Maya thought. It is divided into four parts, which tell of the origin of the wordl and the creation of humans; the adventures of two demigods in Xibalbá, the region of the dead, and finally gives information about the origin of the indigenous peoples of the region, their migrations, wars and conquests, followed by a chronology of their rulers.