Capítulo II Estos son los nombres de los primeros hombres que fueron creados y formados: el primer hombre fue Balam-Quitzé, el segundo Balam-Acab, e1 tercero Mahucutah y el cuarto Iqui-Balam.
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,
Excerpt from: The Popol Vuh The Mythic and Heroic Sagas of the Kichés of Central America By Lewis Spence Published by David Nutt, at the Sign of the Phoenix, Long Acre, London [1908] PREFACE THE “Popol Vuh” is the New World’s richest mythological mine.
