1 - Histomesoamericana
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36 THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY<br />
of Emal was killed by the priest<br />
of the east. It was a rain of fire<br />
over the Maya and the Christians<br />
alike. (624)<br />
Then the sky calmed. The<br />
sacrificial priest of Emal was<br />
sacrificed by the eastern one. In<br />
13 Ahau, it being the end of the<br />
Itza cycle, they decorated<br />
Chichen Itza and built a bonfire,<br />
and the priests assembled<br />
and conferred. And also on the<br />
day of baptism the unbaptized<br />
and the sun priests were told<br />
about Christianity—the God<br />
from the east and the Garden of<br />
Eden. And they destroyed<br />
Emal. (648)<br />
T u men Lahun Chaan*<br />
Paaxnom Chac Tenel Ahau<br />
Kaxbom kak<br />
T u tel chacil yooc 620<br />
Ti tal i<br />
Chac kit-hom u kab yax che*<br />
Chac-hom u kab nicte<br />
Chac-hom u xik mucuy*<br />
T u kin 625<br />
Ix lelem caan<br />
Auatnom Chac Tenel Ah Ya<br />
Paaxnom Sac Tenel Ahau*<br />
T u kinil<br />
Ox lahun Ahau ual e 630<br />
He Chi Ch'en Itza e<br />
Ox lahun te u cuch<br />
Mis bom u petenil Chi Ch'en<br />
Hopom kak tan chumuc cah<br />
Ti uchom u than tamba ah kinob 635<br />
Lai u ual ah bobatob e<br />
Y etel y ubal<br />
Tut<br />
He le ix u kin ha<br />
T u than ob e 640<br />
Ah kinob e<br />
Ti ma ix kaxom ha i<br />
Lay ubah ob u pec<br />
U xik mucuy<br />
Ti te ku likin e 645<br />
Pec u cah u kab nicte<br />
Pax u cah<br />
Sac Tenel Ahau<br />
Because Lahun Chan<br />
Was destroyed by the East sacrificial<br />
priest.<br />
It dropped fire<br />
And poured down steam,<br />
Which came<br />
And poured rain on the ceiba<br />
branches.<br />
It rained on the flowering branches;<br />
It rained on the doves' wings;<br />
And at that time<br />
The sky quieted.<br />
Screamed the East sacrificial priest<br />
And destroyed the North sacrificial<br />
priest<br />
At the time<br />
Of 13 Ahau's return.<br />
Then Chichen Itza,<br />
On the thirteenth of its burdens,<br />
Swept and painted the country at<br />
Chichen,<br />
And burned the fire before the<br />
middle of the city.<br />
Then the sun priests talked to each<br />
other.<br />
That was the return of the prophets.<br />
And they listened<br />
And visited.<br />
Likewise on the day of water<br />
They spoke to<br />
The sun priests<br />
And those who had not dropped<br />
water.<br />
That was how they heard the message<br />
Of the dove wing:<br />
That there was a God in the east:<br />
The awareness of the place of the<br />
flowering branch.<br />
And they destroyed the city<br />
Of the North sacrificial priest,<br />
617.10 Chaan 'molar', the pro-Christian leader, was sacrificed by fire. See also<br />
line 607.<br />
622. 'Ceiba branches' is a metaphor for the pagan Maya, faithful to the sacred<br />
ceiba tree.<br />
624. 'Flowering branches' and 'doves' wings' are metaphors for the Christians,<br />
who brought war (flowers) and peace (doves). Mucuy is identified by Tozzer 1941:<br />
20 as belonging to the genus Columbina.<br />
628. Chac Tenel Ahau [sic) and Sac Tenel Ahau, the 'red and white death<br />
lords', were the sacrificial priests of the east (red) and the north (white). The<br />
former sacrificed the latter, 10 Chaan. The eastern priest may have been 7 Sat Ay.<br />
See also lines 525 ff.<br />
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