1 - Histomesoamericana
1 - Histomesoamericana
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coming from the east were welcomed<br />
with tears. The bearded<br />
foreigners displayed the white<br />
God on the cross. Immediately<br />
beforehand you expected them.<br />
(1186)<br />
They came to build, and<br />
priests came with them, bringing<br />
the word of God to redeem<br />
the world. So we wept over conversion,<br />
O peasants and nobles!<br />
God's will be done, as He is the<br />
Father of heaven and earth.<br />
Welcome it when it comes to<br />
Mani. (1206)<br />
ELEVEN AHAU 55<br />
Sac uinicob e<br />
Be okbac on ti tali ob<br />
Ti likin u tal<br />
Ca uli ob uay e<br />
Ah mexob<br />
Ah pulob*<br />
Ti chicul ku sac<br />
Uaom che canal<br />
Hun lub<br />
Hun auat u talel<br />
Au ilc ex<br />
Mut y anal cab t ex<br />
Ulic ob hunac mol cheob<br />
Hunac mol tunichob<br />
Y et ule ob<br />
U yumil ca pixan*<br />
Oclis u than hahal ku<br />
T au ol ex<br />
Lei bin etz'kal<br />
A pac ti bal cah tusinil<br />
U than ku likul canal<br />
Be okbac on ti tali ob<br />
C ex u itz'in ex<br />
C ex sucun ex e<br />
U than ku ma tusbil<br />
Be lie u talel u betabal i<br />
U than u yumil caan<br />
Y etel luum<br />
Kam ex<br />
Au ula ex<br />
Talel u cah<br />
Ah tan tunob e.*<br />
U75 Those white people;<br />
So we wept at their coming.<br />
They came from the east;<br />
Then they arrived here,<br />
The bearded men,<br />
1180 The guayaba people,<br />
And manifested the white God<br />
Standing on the tall pole.<br />
One stop,<br />
One shout before they came,<br />
1185 You saw them<br />
And awaited your dawn.<br />
They came to assemble piles of trees,<br />
To assemble piles of stones,<br />
And there came with them<br />
1190 The fathers of our souls,<br />
Bringing the word of the True God<br />
To your hearts.<br />
That will be the setting of the roll,<br />
Your fold of the wicked world.<br />
1195 The word of God will be raised on<br />
high.<br />
So we wept at their coming,<br />
O younger brothers,<br />
O older brothers!<br />
The word of God is no falsehood.<br />
1200 Thus as it comes it will be done,<br />
The word of the Father of heaven<br />
And earth.<br />
Take it<br />
And welcome it,<br />
1205 Coming to the town<br />
Of the front stone people.<br />
1180. The Maya were impressed that the first thing the Spaniards ate was<br />
guayaba, so they nicknamed them "guayaba eaters," as well as "red beards,"<br />
"foreigners," "white men," and "sons of the sun." See Tozzer 1941: 49. Guayaba is<br />
Annona.<br />
1190. The first Franciscans reached Campeche in 1546 (Ancona 1878: 2: 36),<br />
Mani in 1548 (ibid.: 49), Merida, Conkal, and Izamal in 1549 (ibid.: 71), and<br />
Valladolid in 1552 (ibid.: 72).<br />
1206. Barrera 1948: 126 associates Tan Tun with Cozumel. I speculate that it<br />
may refer' to the façade of the church at Mani, first headquarters of the Franciscans<br />
in 1548.