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When the Spaniards conquered the Yucatan Peninsula in the early 1500s, they made a great effort to destroy or Christianize the native cultures flourishing there. That they were in large part unsuccessful is evidenced by the survival of a number of documents written in Maya and preserved and added to by literate Mayas up to the 1830s. The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel is such a document, literally the history of Yucatan written by and for Mayas, and it contains much information not available from Spanish sources because it was part of an underground resistance movement of which the Spanish were largely unaware.
Well known to Mayanists, The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel is presented here in Munro S. Edmonson's English translation, extensively annotated. Edmonson reinterprets the book as literature and as history, placing it in chronological order and translating it as poetry. The ritual nature of Mayan history clearly emerges and casts new light on Mexican and Spanish acculturation of the Yucatecan Maya in the post-Classic and colonial periods.
Centered in the city of Merida, the Chumayel provides the western (Xiu) perspective on Yucatecan history, as Edmonson's earlier book The Ancient Future of the Itza: The Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin presented the eastern (Itza) viewpoint. Both document the changing calendar of the colonial period and the continuing vitality of pre-Columbian ritual thought down to the nineteenth century. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the survival of the long-count dating system down to the Baktun Ceremonial of 1618 (12.0.0.0.0). But there are others: the use of rebus writing, the survival of the tun until 1752, graphic if oblique accounts of Mayan ceremonial drama, and the depiction of the Spanish conquest as a long-term inter-Mayan civil war.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Manuscripts
Language
Science: The Tzol Kin; the Tun; The Hab; The Tikal Calendar; The Mayapan Calendar; The Valladolid Calendar; The AÑo; The Julian Calendar; The Semana
The Arts: Cuisine; Toponymy; Onomastics; Poetry; Drama; Narrative; Myth
History: Tenth Century; Thirteenth Century; Fourteenth Century; Fifteenth Century; Sixteenth Century; Seventeenth Century; Eighteenth Century; Nineteenth Century
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny
The Eighth Century
6 Ahau
1. The First Chronicle
4 Ahau
2. The Second Chronicle
The Tenth Century
12 Ahau
3. The Third Chronicle
The Fifteenth Century
8 Ahau
4. Izamal and Champoton
6 Ahau
5. Uxmal
4 Ahau
6. Chichen Itza
7. The Sermon of Ahau Pech
The Sixteenth Century
2 Ahau
8. Cozumel
9. The Sermon of Puc Tun
13 Ahau
10. The Sermon of Xopan Nahuat
11. Coba
11 Ahau
12. The Ceremonial of the May
13. The Sermon of Tzin Yabun
14. The Building of the Pyramids
15. The Ceremonial of the Hab
16. Christianity Reaches Merida
17. The Count of the Katuns
18. Merida Seats the Cycle
19. The New Cycle of Merida
9 Ahau
20. The Birth of the Uinal
21. The Sermon of Kauil Ch'el
22. The Cathedral of Merida
23. The Shield of Yucatan
24. The Inquisition in the East
7 Ahau
25. The Civil War
The Seventeenth Century
5 Ahau
26. The Military Orders
27. The War Indemnity
3 Ahau
28. Caesar Augustus
29. The Ceremonial of the Baktun
30. The Language of Zuyua
31. Additional Riddles
32. Astronomical Notes
1 Ahau
33. Caesar Augustus and the Chan War
34. Antonio MartÍnez
12 Ahau
35. Valladolid Resurgent
10 Ahau
36. Chable
8 Ahau
37. The Annals of Tixkokob
The Eighteenth Century
6 Ahau
4 Ahau
38. The Ending of Tribute at Chichen Itza
39. Calendrical Notes
2 Ahau
40. Valladolid
41. The Sevenfold Creation
42. The Sins of the Itza
43. The Sheep and the Goats
44. Notes from Chumayel
The Nineteenth Century
13 Ahau
45. Coba
11 Ahau
46. Tizimin
Appendix A. Concordance
Appendix B. A Ceremonial Circuit
Appendix C. The Mayan Calendar
Appendix D. Seats and Lords of the Katun
Bibliography
Index
