The Maya Chronicles: Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1
History
The Maya Chronicles: Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1
Maya language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Maya language -- Texts; Mayas -- Antiquities; Mayas -- History
33. And Ah Naum Pech called the youths and said to him--"Know ye, that
on the day called 1 Ymix it will dawn, there will come from the eastern
lands bearded men with the sign of the only God to this land; go to
receive them with true pleasure;" therefore they went and marched under
the trees, under the branches, and they arrived at the house of Naɔay
Cab, of Canul at Campech and said:--"He, your guest, is now coming, Ah
Naɔa Cab of Canul, receive him promptly." Thus they said when the
ships appeared in the port of Campeche, when they saw the banners
waving, the white standard, and they came, when he had cast anchor, to
the Adelantado, and were asked in Castilian by the Christians, and the
Adelantado, whether they had been baptized; but they did not know his
language, and replied: "We do not understand the words;" so they said,
and thus they named this land here Yucatan, (which was known to us as)
the land of the wild turkey, the land of the deer.
34. Thus then the captains and our lord the Adelantado Don Francisco de
Montejo went on; and they made much cloth and thread to cut into
clothing for the horses, as they wished to go to the town of Mani, to
the Tutulxiu. When they came to Yiba they held a talk in Yiba; they
arrived at Nohcacab coming out of Becal; thus the Spaniards passed and
arrived at Mani, to Tutulxiu, and then were appointed the chief Ikeb,
the chief Caixicum and the chief Chuc to go to invite Ah Cuat Cocom.
They were at first taken and placed in a cave by his followers: then
their eyes were put out in that great cave of weasels, and there was not
one who did not have his eyes put out in the cave of weasels; their eyes
were put out and they were given the road to go groping to the
Adelantado at Mani; and thus returned those who were cast out of the
town of Cuat Cocom. Then Ah Naum Pech rose up with both of them and came
to Ah Cuat Cocom; when they arrived, he said to Ah Naum Pech that he had
not seen nor heard of it; he said he had gone to Chichen Itza, and he
came promptly to the towns with the Pechs, and they arrived at Mani to
deliver up promptly (the offenders); and the Cocom said he had not
witnessed what had happened in his village, and he would give permission
that they should be taken who had done it.
35. Then Ah Pech came to the towns in order to see the people governed
in them; the Spaniards also came, but on account of the massacre of the
foreigners by the people, they passed on and went to Ah Batum Pech of
Chel, whom they saw, and passed on, and went to Maxtunil, to Nachi May
and Ah Macan Pech; they then returned to their lands to the towns they
governed at Yaxkukul; Don Pablo Pech, Ah Macan Pech, was governor of all
the district to the west, nor did his captains at all give up their
spirits; soon I was appointed to guard the territory Chac Xulub Chen,
because the serving men were at war on account of the labor given them,
and by taking them the will of God was fulfilled in the towns.
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