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
14. When the war against the Spaniards began we spread out our forces
together with them, and went with my father, Ah Macan Pech, of the first
lineage of Yaxkukul, and Ixkil Yɔam Pech, of the first lineage of
Cumkal, and I went after them to the war; then began the obligation of
tribute to our rulers for the Spanish governors in the town; when we
went to the war there was _pinole_ and _tuce_ to drink, because they
were disgusted with the Christians; for six months we and my companions
followed the Christians in their misfortunes; my father was then
governed by the regidors, who saw that all that I write in my
information truly happened, everything, in order that it may be known by
my family, my sons, in the hereafter, until the end of the world, for my
title and evidence given me by our Lord God and our great lord, the
reigning king; I have no tribute nor do I pay tribute, nor will my sons
nor my daughters pay tribute, because our Lord God released me from it
in the fear of my heart; before I had seen the face of the Spaniards I
had been given willingness that I should deliver myself and all my town
into the hands of the Spaniards, in order that they might be inhabited
by the captains, the Adelantado and the first conquistadores who came
here to this land, Yucatan; and the year the first foreigners came here
to the land of the Cupuls was the year 1511.
15. In former times no one saw Spanish foreigners, not until Jeronimo de
Aguilar was captured by the natives of Cozumel; then first the whole of
the country became known, because all the country was marched over; but
because the whole of the land was not made use of I spoke of it before
the king, when there went before the king Ah Macan Pech, Don Pedro Pech,
and his followers, and the first of his lineage, and all his chiefs
after him; they went after him to honor the king, that he might see the
faces of his servants; then fifty of the principal men went afterwards
to the lord the ruling king, to obey him at table, far off in Spain, and
those remained to obey before the ruling King; then the ruler said that
all should pay tribute and all their sons, even we the Pechs of the
first lineage in this land, and the first lineage of the Cupuls; then it
was said, there is a great province, and many men and things in the
land, and an account shall be made of it before our great king, and now
they shall come to fix the limits of the land for our beloved king. Thus
the land was discovered by Aguilar, who was eaten by Ah Naum Ah Pat at
Cuzamil in the year 1517. In this year the katun ended, and then ended
the placing of the town stone, for at each twentieth stone they came to
place the town stones, formerly, when the Spaniards had not yet come to
Cuzamil, to this land; since the Spaniards came, it has ceased to be
done.
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