The Annals of the Cakchiquels. PREFACE, v INTRODUCTION, 9. by Daniel G. Brinton; 1885
Category: Books, The Annals of the Cakchiquels[i] LIBRARY OF Aboriginal American Literature. No. VI.
[i] LIBRARY OF Aboriginal American Literature. No. VI.
[65] THE ANNALSOFTHE CAKCHIQUELS.BY A MEMBER OF THE XAHILA FAMILY. [66] [67] 1. VAE XTINUIBAH HALAL QUITZIH HE NABEY Ka tata ka mama, heri xeboço vinak oher mahaniok ti laabex vae huyu taah; a ruyon ok umul iquin oh, que cha, ha ok ki xquilaabeh huyu taah he a ka tata ka mama, yx nuahol, […]
[195] NOTES. 1. The author begins by stating his purpose in a few lines.
[209] VOCABULARY. A, n. A year; the thigh; pron. thy. Abah, n. A stone; a jar; the private parts. Aca, part. Related, affined. See p. 32.
[229] INDEX OF NATIVE PROPER NAMES. (The numbers refer to the sections.) Acalan, 182. Açacot, 81. Ahachel, 41.
Preamble THIS IS THE BEGINNING of the old traditions of this place called Quiché. Here we shall write and we shall begin the old stories, the beginning and the origin of all that was done in the town of the Quiché, by the tribes of the Quiché nation.
PART II: Chapter 1 Now we shall also tell the name of the father of Hunahpú and Xbalanqué. We shall not tell his origin and we shall not tell the history of the birth of Hunahpú and Xbalanqué. We shall tell only half of it, only a part of the history of his father.
PART III: Chapter 1 Here, then is the beginning of when it was decided to make man, and when what must enter into the flesh of man was sought.
PART IV: Chapter 1 NOW, THEN, MANY TOWNS WERE BEING founded, one by one, and the different branches of the tribes were being reunited and settled close to the roads, their roads which they had opened. As for Balam-Quitzé, Balam-Acab, Mahucutah,
RABINAL-ACHI VEPU XAHOH-TUN U BI XAHOH RECH VAE TINAMIT RABINAL X-U TZIBAM NADE BARTOLO ZIZ, MAMA AH-RABINAL, RU X-ELEZAH-VI QUXTUBAL-TA RE C’AL QUI QAHOL.