Raphael Girard
Raphael Girard was an Maya ethnographer who specializes at Mesoamerican tribes culture and traditions. He and his wife, Rebeca Carrión Cachot moved to Guatemala city in 1955 so to research what subsequently became the book "Esotericism of the Popol Vuh".Early life
Raphael Girard was born in Martigny, Switzerland, he's parents were Joseph Girard a public worker business man and Melanie Besse de Girard an elementary school teacher, however she died was he was 14. since Raphael Girard was a child he showed intellectual skills in 1915 he published many book like Le Centenaire Valaisan, Sur le Trim.Career
He started as a professor in "Lycée St. Maurice". In 1918 he joined the Swiss army 4th Company, XII Battalion mountain infantry, On January 10, 1919, with the support of Eugene Pittard of Geneva University, he joined the Society of History and Geography of Paris. He then sailed to Honduras. Fellow anthropologist pioneers, Esteban Guardiola, Luis Land, Félix Salgado, Pedro Rivas, Jesús Aguilar and Rebeca Carrión Cachot which he married in December 1955, founded the Honduran Society of History and Geography. He then completed ethnographic works about the Hicaques, Mayans Payas, Caribss, Miskitos, and Susmus.