1 - Histomesoamericana

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