The Maya Chronicles: Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1
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The Maya Chronicles: Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1
Maya language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Maya language -- Texts; Mayas -- Antiquities; Mayas -- History
"A la quinta vez que sentó el noveno Rey en la guerra cuando llegaron
los Españoles que se poblaron en la ciudad de Merida, el principal Rey
de esa ciudad era siempre cacique y el año en que llegaron los Señores
Españoles aqui en esta suelo fué el de 1511."
_Translation of Brasseur._
"C'est à la cinquième division cimentée (dans le mur) de ce onzième
Ahau-Katun qu'arrivèrent les Espagnols et qu'ils s'établirent à Ti-Uoh
de ce pays de Ti-Ho, et c'est à la neuvième de cet Ahau que s'établit le
Christianisme, cette année même que vinrent nos seigneurs les Espagnols
en cette contrée, c'est à dire, en l'année 1511."
It will be seen that the former completely travesties the passage, while
the latter mistakes the proper names and destroys the chronological
value of the dates given.
2. _Hidalgos conquistadoren_, Spanish titles which we are surprised to
find a native claiming; but later on (§ 9) he informs us that he was
authorized to employ them by the Spanish officials.
Chichinica was a pueblo near Chicxulub, which is now no longer in
existence.
3. _Ti ma ococ haa tin pol cuchi_, "formerly, when the water will not
entered to my head" _i. e._, before I was baptized. This complicated
construction of the negative (_ma_), a future (_ococ_ from _ocol_) and
the sign of the past tense (_cuchi_), also occurs on an earlier page
(98), where we have the sentence _uacppel haab u binel ma ɔococ u
xocol oxlahun ahau cuchi_, six years before the end of the 13th ahau.
_Ocol haa_, syncopated to _ocola_, and even _oca_, was the usual term
for Christian baptism.
Xulkumcheel was a pueblo which does not seem to have survived.
_Ah Naum Pech, likul tu cah Mutul._ Ah Naum Pech from, or native of, the
town Mutul. The latter is the modern Motul, about 22 miles easterly from
Chicxulub. The name is also spelled Mutul by Cogolludo (_Historia de
Yucatan_, Lib. VI, cap. VII).
_Halach uinic_, previously explained, was the ancient native title of
chief of a village. It is the same word which Oviedo, in his report of
Grijalva's expedition deforms into _calachini_ (_Historia de las
Indias_, Lib. XVII).
The date, 1519, like various others in the narrative, appears to have
been erroneously entered or copied. It should probably be 1539.
_Maxtunil_ does not at present exist. _Ɔilam_ is a town north of
Itzamal, near the sea coast. It is by some identified as the spot where
Francisco de Montejo embarked after his retreat from Chichen Itza, in
1528.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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