Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny

The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel

AvMunro S. Edmonson

Häftad, Engelska, 1986

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1986-10-01
Mått:178 x 254 x 17 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Texas Pan American Series
Antal sidor:319
Förlag:University of Texas Press
ISBN:9780292719378

Utforska kategorier

Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Munro S. Edmonson (1924-2002) was a professor of anthropology at Tulane University. He had an international reputation as an outstanding Mesoamericanist and was the author of numerous books.

Innehållsförteckning

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