1 - Histomesoamericana

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Everything was torn up by war
in this katun. (1448)
The sages began to confer
over the crisis, foreseeing the
end of the noble lineages, Itza
and Xiu. Amayte Uitz was the
usurper, and the military orders
without authorization began
the damned katun and the
Bech' Kab war. Welcome it
when the missionaries come
into our towns, and accept
Christianity. (1474)
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Nicte uah
Nicte ha
U cuch
Katun
T ix u hoppol
U tzuucil miatzob i
Cotz'bal u u ichob
Yuklahom ti bal cah
Yum a
U netzil uil
Kuk
Yaxum
Amaite Uitz u u ich
Bin u tus coil than
Balam Ochil*
Balam Ch'amacil
Ma tub u tz'al e
U than katun
T ix u hoppol
U tzin tzin loc katun i
T ix u ho- (I6v) -ppol
U Bech' Kab nicte i*
Noh kam
A u ula ex
Te
U talel ichil
Ca cahal ex e
Talel u cah
U kat xptianoil ex
T u tan kin ual e.
1445 Flower food,
Flower water
Were the burden
Of the katun.
And there was the beginning
1450 Of the gatherings of the sages,
Rolling their eyes
At what was spread in the world:
These fathers
Of the waning moon,
1455 Quetzal,
And blue bird.
Amayte Uitz was the leader,
And lies and madness will be the
word
Of the Jaguar Possums,
1460 The Jaguar Foxes.
Nowhere is given
The word of the katun.
And there is the beginning
Of the asshole boils katun.
1465 And there was the beginning
Of the Bech' Kab Flowers.
The right is to be accepted:
Welcome it!
There
1470 Will come the pairs
To your towns.
Come to the towns
To desire that you be Christian
At midday again.
1459. Balam Ochil 'jaguar possums' and Balam Ch'amacil 'jaguar foxes': military
orders.
1466. Bech' Kab 'quail branch'. See also lines 2141 and 2793, which appear to
date this disturbance to the following katun (1604 or 1612).