1 - Histomesoamericana

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