1 - Histomesoamericana
1 - Histomesoamericana
1 - Histomesoamericana
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20 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY<br />
Jaguars, Coral Snakes, Wooden<br />
Masks, Stabbers, and Little<br />
Flints who assembled for the<br />
calendar round sacrifices. There<br />
was to be slaughter, shooting,<br />
and usurpation of the lordship<br />
into the Christian period, at the<br />
1539 sacrifices for the final end<br />
of the Itza cycle, but the real<br />
end was 1461, which overwhelmed<br />
the Itza governors.<br />
(338)<br />
Defeating the Spanish will be<br />
another matter: in 1559 there<br />
will be a war in the corresponding<br />
katun. (346)<br />
Calam<br />
Koh Che<br />
Y etel Ah Cacap<br />
Chan Tokil*<br />
Oc na<br />
Kuchil<br />
Ma ya cimlal<br />
Kin tun y abil<br />
Hoc*<br />
Muc tza<br />
Tz'on<br />
Bacal tza<br />
Ah cootz*<br />
Ah sitz'<br />
U cuch katun<br />
T u kinil xptianoil*<br />
T u kinil nicte unicil<br />
T u kin u chac tun num ya<br />
Uchom u uutz'<br />
Katun<br />
T u y ox lahun te<br />
Ah uaxac Ahau ual e*<br />
U lubul<br />
U than<br />
Y okol u hal ach uinicil<br />
Y ahau Ah Ytza<br />
Ma cetel<br />
Bin tz'ocbal nicte uinicil<br />
Lai bolon Ahau*<br />
Ti pak i<br />
Chimal kal<br />
Y etel halal kal<br />
Lai bin uchuc t u nup katun<br />
Hun tz'am ual e.*<br />
Coral Snakes,<br />
Wooden Masks,<br />
315 Stabbers,<br />
And Little Flints,<br />
Coming to the house<br />
And appearing<br />
With the painless death<br />
320 Of the calendar round:<br />
Uprooting<br />
And removal by burial,<br />
The blowgun<br />
And removal by shot,<br />
325 Pluckers<br />
And lusters<br />
After the burden of the katun<br />
In the time of Christianity,<br />
In the time of the Flower people,<br />
330 In the time of the red stone<br />
suffering<br />
Occurring on the fold<br />
Of the katun,<br />
On the thirteenth:<br />
The return of 8 Ahau,<br />
335 The posting<br />
Of his word<br />
Over the governors,<br />
Lords of the Itza.<br />
Otherwise<br />
340 Will be the ending of the Flower<br />
people.<br />
That is 9 Ajiau,<br />
Who plants<br />
His shield bundle<br />
And arrow bundle.<br />
345 That will occur on the opposite katun:<br />
They are a pair returning.<br />
316. That is, the explanation of Can Ul's de facto success was a deal with the<br />
military orders.<br />
321. See note 224.<br />
325. Line repeated in the text by error.<br />
328. Xptianoil is an anachronism of the time of transcription. It is virtually the<br />
only Spanish word in any of the texts I have placed as preconquest. See also line<br />
480.<br />
334. That is, 8 Ahau (1461) was the thirteenth (Xiu) katun.<br />
341. The ending of the Flower katun was the beginning of 9 Ahau (1559).<br />
346. "Pairs" of katuns are not elsewhere attested, and the concept of pairing<br />
within a cycle of thirteen is difficult. 8 Ahau and 9 Ahau are six katuns apart, and<br />
the Maya sometimes divided their cycles of thirteen into six plus seven. Barrera<br />
1948: 225 reads this as 'when the katun may close completely'.<br />
From 8 Ahau (1461) on, the Tizimin makes a conscientious effort to keep track<br />
of the lords of the katun. Some pretenders are hard to identify, but the principal<br />
(note continued on following page)