1 - Histomesoamericana

7 priest Sat Ay. That was the
teaching of the 7 priest Sat Ay,
who was unhappy with the
Spaniards who were to end his
rule. So the new count began
and the tax for converts to God
and the King, who ordered it in
knowledge of their income and
stacked and measured it. The
nobles of the former Itza suffered
extinction for salvation.
(554)
Here they all are: Xopan
Náhuatl the land reckoner and
THIRTEEN AHAU 33
T u men Uuc Sat Ai*
U kaba cisin
Lai y an chun can e
Ti bin c u ch'aal than ob
Te chun can e
Ti cahana Uuc Sat Ay
T u men ya ti y ol
U talel tz'ulob each i
T u men bin hauac u tepal
Cisin c uch i
Ca tun hopp u xocic ichil
Ah ual kin
Te chil y ilabal
U talel koch c uch i e
Y oklal
T u y ol
Y an hun ahau canal
Hun y ahau ti cab
T u than ob c uch i e
U nat-h ob ix hi bal u cuchma e
Y etel bin u ppiculte
U ppisante*
Yal
U mehen
AhYtza
Uchmal e
Num ya bin u cib e
U pixan uil
Utz cuxlahebal
Ychil u pitic num ya e
Lei y an
Ichil t u lacal e
Xupan Nauat
Ukaba
525 Because the 7 priest Sat Ay
Was the name of the devil
Who had the basic doctrine
Which was going to prepare their
word.
This is the basic doctrine
530 That was initiated by the 7 priest
Sat Ay
Because his heart was sore
That the foreigners had come
Because that was going to end his rule:
The devil was finished.
535 For then began the count of the face
Of the returned sun:
On the occasion of its appearance
The tax came
Because
540 In essence
There was one lord on high,
One lord on earth.
They had spoken
And they also knew something of
his burden.
545 And they will stack it up
And measure it,
The born
And engendered children
Of the Itza
550 That were.
Suffering goes its candle then,
The soul of the moon.
Good may be resurrected
In the avoidance of that suffering.
555 Here they are then
In their completeness:
Xopan Náhuatl
By name,
525. The 7 priest Sat Ay 'wait grease' was active in this and the following
katun at Merida. If my surmise is correct, the number gods had corresponding
priesthoods, but it may be that the first five number priests were the directional
priests as well. The commonest number prefixes to personal names (if one includes
the color prefixes) are 1 (red, east), 7, and 11, in that order. I believe 1 to be
the commonest because it was the highest-ranking. Eleven is important because it
symbolizes the inauguration of the second half of the katun. Seven is a problem.
The contexts in which 7 priests are mentioned suggest to me that they early
concluded that they could benefit from the ideological boost provided by the
Christian week. If so, Sat Ay may have been the first to realize this. Compare the
career of Cha Pat in 5 Ahau.
546. The removal and stacking of the burden were part of the katun-endwg
ceremonies. Compare lines 705-706.