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A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies have been maintained in this version of this book. They have been marked with a [TN-#], which refers to a description in the complete list found at the end of the text. One error that was corrected is also listed at the end...
A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies have been maintained in this version of this book. They have been marked with a [TN-#], which refers to a description in the...
2. Chapter 2Nacal in cah, I ascend. Nacal a cah, thou ascendest. Nacal u cah, he ascends. Nacal c cah, we ascend. Nacal a cah ex, you ascend. Nacal u cah ob, they ascend.
3. Chapter 31. Pop. 2. Uo. 3. Zip. 4. Zo[c]. 5. Zeec. 6. Xul. 7. [C]e-yaxkin. 8. Mol. 9. Chen. 10. Yaax. 11. Zac. 12. Ceh. 13. Mac. 14. Kankin. 15. Moan. 16. Pax. 17. Kayab. 18. Cumku.
4. Chapter 4In 1684, the _Arte de la Lengua Maya_, composed by Father Gabriel de San Buenaventura, a French Franciscan stationed in Yucatan, was printed in Mexico.[73-2] Only a few copies o...
5. Chapter 5Making the necessary omissions in No. II, which I point out in the prefatory note to it, it will be found that all five agree tolerably well in the length of time they embrace....
6. Chapter 6The word _cante_ is translated by Perez and Brasseur as _four_, and applied to the Tutulxiu, while the intervening word _anilo_ is not translated by either: _cante_ is no doubt...
7. Chapter 7I confess that to me it has a suspiciously mythical aspect. It is too similar to what I may call the standard hero-myth of the American Aborigines. Everywhere, both in North and...
8. Chapter 820. What Marshall is referred to is uncertain, _thulub_ should probably be _chulub_, and so I have translated it. Berendt suggested _ca botab chulub_, "when they paid for water,...
9. Chapter 91. The count begins with the discovery of Chichen Itza, mentions that Pop was "counted in order" at the beginning of the next following Ahau Katun, and having stated the deserti...
10. Chapter 10The writer, Nakuk Pech, baptized Pablo Pech, must have been between sixty and seventy years of age when he drew up his statement, inasmuch as he mentions occurrences, as late as...
11. Chapter 1132. Hex Na[c]i Mabun Chane culhi tu ca cabil u natatah bicil talel u cah hunkul cuxtal yoltah u kububaob ti Dios tu hahil Ah Catzimob _y_ AhChulimob tu chuccabil Manil, _y_ Ah T...
12. Chapter 1222. In the year 1546 there was a conjuration in the highlands of the country; on the 9th of November there had been peace for four months, and it occurred on the 9th day of Nove...
13. Chapter 13The _ahkul_ was an envoy or messenger, who carried the orders of the prince to his people and to foreign princes. The title was usually prefixed to the name of the person.
14. Chapter 14Cun _or_ Cunah _or_ Cunal, n. Enchantment, sorcery, conjury. _Au ohel ua_ u _cunal c[=h]uplal?_ Do you know the conjury of a woman? _Dicc. Motul_ (_i. e._, to make her submit to...