1 - Histomesoamericana

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God is good. He is the light of
our lives. O God the Creator
whose word is good, Father and
guardian, be established and
manifest in the cross, to the
sorrow of the yearbearer priests
beyond the ceiba. This is the
Sole God of the Itza. Worship
Him on high with true faith as
the True God. Enter into the
word of your Redeemer, O Itza,
now. Love one another, I say, for
that is God's word. 1 shall unite
it in 1647. (4038)
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Utz kau than ku
C u talel k icnal e
Talel u cah u thanl
U kin ca cuxtal e
Ma a sahtic y okol cab e yum
T ech hunab ku ch'abtic oon
Utz turn ba
U than ku e
Yum
(Y ah canul ca pixan)
Ca u acunte u chicul canal
Ca a u acunto
Ca pacte hele e
Ca u acunto u uaom che
Numtetah u kex
Ah okol hele e
U hel t u pach u yax cheel cab
Etsahom helel ti bal cah e
La u chicul hunab ku canal
(lOv) Talom e
La a kult ex
Ah Itza ex
Ca a kulte hel e
U chichil ku
Likul canal e
Ca c kulte to
T u hahil kolah
Ca c kulte to
Ca hahal ku e
Oces t a ba
U than hunab ku
Tali
Canal au ah thanul e
Cuxcint a u ol
AhYtza
Ahom uil cab ti ob
Ocsic ti y ol
Ychil u y anal katun ual e
Yab t u ba
In than
C en
Chilam Balam
Ca in tzolah
U than hahal ku
In bin hunac
Tzuc ti cab
T u bolon pis y abil
Ah hun Ahau ual e.*
Good is the word of God
Which is coming before us,
Coming to begin the words,
The sun of our lives here.
3995 Do not frighten the world, Father,
Thou, Sole God, created us.
Good is the news—
The word of God,
The Father,
4000 (Guardian of our souls).
Establish his grace on high;
Establish it
And manifest its change.
Establish his standing tree
4005 To pain his replacement,
The believer in change:
The change behind the ceiba land
Placed as a change in the field
That is the blessed Sole God on high
4010 Who is come.
That is your God,
O ye Itza.
Worship the replacement
Of the powerful God
4015 Rising to heaven.
Let us worship him
With true devotion;
Let us worship him
Our True God.
4020 Enter yourselves
Into the word of the Sole God
Who is come
To raise your spokesman
And resurrect your hearts,
4025 O Itza,
That the earth may be awakened
By those who are brought to his heart
In the period of this katun's return.
Love one another
4030 Is my word,
Mine
As Spokesman of the Jaguar.
For I am recounting
The word of the True God.
4035 I shall unite
And assemble it on earth
In the ninth year's time
Of him who is again 1 Ahau.
4038. That is, 1647, possibly the date of the composition of this text.