1 - Histomesoamericana

62 THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
time, with lust and sodomy everywhere
day and night, constant
sin enslaving the hearts of
the rulers and blackening the
wilderness. The peasants lived
like animals in 7 Ahau. (1382)
People were crazy; Merida
went crazy completely, everywhere:
drinking and feasting,
Xiu and Itza gorged themselves,
and the girls were shameless.
The lords did not even keep
their vigils. It was a time of
constant change of lords and
usurpations even by the mob,
ending the ceremonial calendar
Hunac tzuc ti cab
Ppen cech cal pach / an i
Ti pulan
Y oc t u lacal i
La u tucul t u kinil
La u tucul ti akab
U keban kin
U keban akab
U munal u pucsikal hal ach uinicob
Ah bobatob
Ti u y ekabtic u che
Y etel u tunich
Ix ma na
Ix ma yum i
Chaan u ba
Xaxak y oc
U uinicil
Ah uuc Ahau katun
Hach coil than
U than
Coil ximbal
U ximbal Ich Can Si Ho
Uchom t u hoppol
T u pach
Yuklahom bal cah
T u lacal
Bolon tz'acab uah
Bolon tz'acab haa
U y al ix kuk
Y al ix yaxum
Uah uaan ti tz'atz'
Uaan ti bulux e
Y utzil
U cichpamil ch'uplal
Cichpamhom
Ma cichpam
Bin ahac
Ma ahan
Ti tal i
U kinil
Uuc kin tepal i
Ua sut tepal i
Homol tepal i
Uuc kinil i
U tepal y an i
U uinicilob e
Holil
Och*
1365 He will gather lust in the land.
There was lust and adultery,
Which was carried
And sprouted everywhere.
That was the thought by day,-
1370 That was the thought by night:
The sin of day;
The sin of night,
Enslaving the hearts of the governors,
The prophets,
1375 Which blackened the trees
And the stones,
And the motherless
And fatherless.
They demeaned themselves
1380 To crawling on all fours,
The people
Of katun 7 Ahau.
Very mad words
Were their words.
1385 Very mad behavior
Was the behavior of Heaven Born
Merida
From start
To finish,
Covering the world
1390 Entirely.
Nine-step bread:
Nine-step water
Of the quetzal Born,
The blue bird born.
1395 Food was raised to be sucked,
Raised to be crammed down;
And goodness—
The beauty of girls—
Being beautified
1400 Is not beauty.
Who should be awake
Is not awake.
There came
The time
1405 Of the seven-day rule,
Of instant rule
And fallen rule.
Seven-day
Rules took place
1410 By the people,
Ending
The count.
1412. Barrera 1948: 104 translates Holil Och as 'possum rats', which is possible
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