1 - Histomesoamericana

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ticipating by ten years what
was coming in the next katun,
the alliance of the northeastern
lineages with baptism and the
rule of Cab Bech' at Yaxche. Ol
Zip ended the disorder of 5
Ahau when he took the office
and the priesthood, succeeding
as a Maya, legitimately in his
seventeenth year, as the towns
and villages will learn. (2160)
II CAUAC (1604)
1604 was the designation of
the successor priest, who was
FIVE AHAU 89
T u may ac tun
Lai uaan tan chakan
Uchom ti to
T u katunil
Bin i
Ual uchom
T u men lai u katunil
Ca uch i*
Hapai Canil*
T u kin u ch'a tarn ba
Mumul
Aal
Auatnom Bech'*
T u kab yax che
U tz'oc tzotz
U tz'oc zitz'il
Y ahaulil
Ah ho Ahau ual e
T u kin u u acunic u luch
Y etz'cunic u pop
Ch'a u cah
Ti y ah kin
U kex ah kin e
T u hoi u pop
He ix c a u ex
Y etel a nok
Ubuc
T u than
Lai u koch
T u uuc lahun ual e*
Ca bin hokoc t u ch'enil
Ti y ac tunil.
II Cauac (1604)
(4r) Bulucil Cauac*
T u hun te Pop
T u buluc pis tun
Ti to tu tepal
In the cycle of the spring of water,
2130 Standing there in the middle of the
field.
That was early
In the katun period
And is going
To occur again,
2135 Because that is the katun period
When it occurred.
The Hapay Cans
Then seized each other,
Splashing
2140 Water,
While the Bech' screamed
In the branches of the ceiba.
The end of lust;
The end of desire:
2145 The lordship
Of 5 Ahau was that again.
On the day of the placement of his
gourd,
The setting out of his mat,
He got his place
2150 As the sun priest,
The successor to that sun priest
At the head of the mat.
He is also in your pants
And your clothes,
2155 Clothed
In his word.
That is the tax
In the seventeenth tun again
When it shall appear in the wells
2160 And springs.
11 Cauac (1604)
Eleventh Cauac
On the first of Pop
On the eleventh measured tun,
Which is the one ruled by
2136. That is, in 3 Ahau.
2137. The Cans appear somewhat consistently on the rebel (Christian) side of
the struggle. See also lines 677, 1814, and 2045.
2141. Cab Bech' 'land quail' became lord in 6 Cauac: 1560 or 1612. See also line
2795. Compare Bech' Kab.
2158. Ol Zip could have been born in 1586, in which case he was only thirteen
when he was passed over as a successor to his father (see line 1838).
2161.11 Cauac 1 Pop (July 17, 1552, or July 4, 1604). See also note 1729 on the
pagination of the manuscript.