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Author : Ralph Loveland Roys
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465527011
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Manuscripts, Maya
ISBN : UCSD:31822023666993
Author : Laura Caso Barrera
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004360136
In Chilam Balam of Ixil Laura Caso Barrera translates for the first time a Yucatec Maya document that resulted from the meticulous reading by the Colonial Maya of various European texts.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292789319
The title of Edmonson's work refers to the Mayan custom of first predicting their history and then living it, and it may be that no other peoples have ever gone so far in this direction. The Book of Chilam Balam was a sacred text prepared by generations of Mayan priests to record the past and to predict the future. The official prophet of each twenty-year rule was the Chilam Balam, or Spokesman of the Jaguar—the Jaguar being the supreme authority charged with converting the prophet's words into fact. This is a literal but poetic translation of one of fourteen known manuscripts in Yucatecan Maya on ritual and history. It pictures a world of all but incredible numerological order, slowly yielding to Christianity and Spanish political pressure but never surrendering. In fact, it demonstrates the surprising truth of a secret Mayan government during the Spanish rule, which continued to collect tribute in the names of the ruined Classic cities and preserved the essence of the Mayan calendar as a legacy for the tradition's modern inheritors. The history of the Yucatecan Maya from the seventh to the nineteenth century is revealed. And this is history as the Maya saw it—of a people concerned with lords and priests, with the cosmology which justified their rule, and with the civil war which they perceived as the real dimension of the colonial period. A work of both history and literature, the Tizimin presents a great deal of Mayan thought, some of which has been suspected but not previously documented. Edmonson's skillful reordering of the text not only makes perfect historical sense but also resolves the long-standing problem of correlating the two colonial Mayan calendars. The book includes both interpretative and literal translations, as well as the Maya parallel couplets and extensive annotations on each page. The beauty of the sacred text is illuminated by the literal translation, while both versions unveil the magnificent historical, philosophical, and social traditions of the most sophisticated native culture in the New World. The prophetic history of the Tizimin creates a portrait of the continuity and vitality, of the ancient past and the foreordained future of the Maya.
Author : Munro S. Edmonson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292789302
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.
Author : Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0872862100
Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno writes in his introduction to Destruction of the Jaguar that ""The Books of Chilam Balam are the only principal surviving texts of the ancient Maya. Written in the Mayan language but in European script, they are generally...
Author : Chilam-Balam,George Byron Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Manuscripts, Maya
ISBN : OCLC:222969776
Author : Timothy Knowlton
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607321989
Maya Creation myths provides not only new and outstanding translations of these myths but also an interpretive journey through these often misunderstood texts, providing insight into Maya cosmology and how Maya intellectuals met the challenge of the European clergy's attempts to eradicate their worldviews. Unlike many scholars who primarily focus on traces of pre-Hispanic culture or Christian influence within the Books of Chilam Balam, Knowlton emphasizes the diversity of Maya mythic traditions and the uniquely Maya discursive strategies that emerged in the Colonial period.
Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0807055077
Exploring firsthand accounts written by Maya nobles from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries-many of them previously untranslated-Restall offers the first Maya account of the conquest. The story holds surprising twists: The conquistadors were not only Spaniards but also Mayas, reconstructing their own governance and society, and the Spanish colonization of the Yucatan was part of an ongoing pattern of adaptation and survival for centuries.
Author : Juan Jose Hofl
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407765337
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Dennis Tedlock
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Quiché Indians
ISBN : 9781456613037
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:186700623
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Richard Luxton
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Manuscripts, Maya
ISBN : 0894122444
Author : Cecilia Vicuña,Ernesto Livon-Grosman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195124545
The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.
Author : Gabrielle Vail,Christine Hernández
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607322214
Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period. Remarkable similarities exist within the Maya tradition, even as new mythologies were introduced through contact with the Gulf Coast region and highland central Mexico. Vail and Hernández analyze the extant Maya codices within the context of later literary sources such as the Books of Chilam Balam, the Popol Vuh, and the Códice Chimalpopoca to present numerous examples highlighting the relationship among creation mythology, rituals, and lore. Compiling and comparing Maya creation mythology with that of the Borgia codices from highland central Mexico, Re-Creating Primordial Time is a significant contribution to the field of Mesoamerican studies and will be of interest to scholars of archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, and comparative religions alike.