...David Brown The Ancient Future of the Itza: The Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin . Translated and annotated by Edmonson Munro S. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1982 . Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Bibliography. Notes. Index . Pp. xx , 220 . Cloth. $37.50 . Copyright...

...Charles Gibson Students seeking an entry into the labyrinth of Chilam Balam texts or wishing to sample the literary history of the Maya with an important and representative document could do no better than to consult this work. The Chilam Balam books were written in the colonial period (Chumayel...

...Ralph L. Roys The Book of the Jaguar Priest, a translation of the Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin, with commentary . By Makemson Maud Worcester . ( New York : Henry Schuman , 1951 . Pp. xi , 238 . Buckram .) Copyright 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 ...

...Munro S. Edmonson The Codex Pérez and The Book of Chilam Balam of Maní . Translated and edited by Craine Eugene R. and Reindorp Reginald C. . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1979 . Illustrations. Figures. Glyphs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxi , 207 . Cloth...

...Matthew Restall Maya Creation Myths: Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam . By Knowlton Timothy W. . Mesoamerican Worlds: From the Olmecs to the Danzantes . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2010 . Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 231 pp. Cloth...

...Matthew Restall An Encounter of Two Worlds: The Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua . Translated and annotated by Bricker Victoria R. and Miram Helga-Maria . New Orleans : Middle American Research Institute,Tulane University , Publication 68 , 2002 . Illustrations. Tables. Figures...

...Owen Jones Christensen's translation of the Maya text in the Teabo Manuscript is precise and exact, which alone is admirable. He questions the hasty categorization of Maya religious texts as Chilam Balams, hidden books kept by the Maya and authored as collective documents that contain esoteric...

... with this hypothesis and its application for the earlier periods and other cultures in Mesoamerica. The supposed may cycle (approximately 256 years) is a serious scholarly misinterpretation by Munro Edmonson ( Heaven Born Mérida and Its Destiny: The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel , University of Texas Press, 1986...

... movement through ritual space and interaction with effigies and painted scenes. Chapter 3 turns to visual sources, mainly from the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, to argue that the Maya conceived of the landscape as animate and linked to world creation. Her arguments also support the idea that early Maya...

... of Chilam Balam written hurriedly in Spanish characters before the old learning should be utterly lost, the magnificently colored murals of Bonampak, the mythologic “Popol Vuh,” the paintings illustrating the undeciphered hieroglyphic texts of the three extant Maya codices, the investigations of modern...

... on sources that make reference to Mayapan, including Landa, the Relaciones geográficas , the books of Chilam Balam, and a number of lesser known writings. A documented examination of Mayapan history is included, as well as a series of extracts from the sources in English translation. These are full...

... assesses the correlation between the Mayan and Julian calendars. He also explores the implications of the Maya notation 1.5.5.0 and its proper place in the Dresden Venus table. Meredith Paxton studies the relationship between the Books of Chilam Balam and their linkage to the codices, and Dennis Tedlock...

...’ failure to fulfill their expectations. In this polyphonic poem, nevertheless, one voice is missing: that of the Indians. Although they are the true victims in the story Cardenal tells, the only Indian source used (a fragment of the Books of Chilam Balam , in canto 17) is strangely distanced from...

... of Chilam Balam, colonial compilations of sacred history, myth, and prophecy successfully hidden from Spanish missionaries.42 Maya communities clearly found some Christian narratives to be useful additions to an open-ended and ever-evolving repertoire of storytelling meant to understand, access, and renew...

...—“The Legacy of Literature and Art.” The cultural and artistic reconnaissance runs the entire gamut from Popul-Vuh and The Books of Chilam, Balam to Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes. While the reader at times may become bogged down in unfamiliar names and titles, the quality of the coverage is uniform...

... more subtle. Apocalypticism was not a powerful concept among Mesoamericans until Western missionaries came to scare the bejeezus out of them with end-of-the-world sermons and art. The authors are also challenged to explain passages from the Maya Books of Chilam Balam that appear to foretell world...

... icons in both regions, including the world tree in Yucatan and the ball game in Guatemala. The world tree, seen ubiquitously throughout Maya sites, codices, and the colonial Books of Chilam Balam, becomes intimately connected to the birth and rebirth of the world and the sacrifice necessary in achieving...

... America supporting the claim that the Cathedral of Mérida was the first to be completed on the mainland. The book's subtitle, a quotation from the Chilam Balam of Tizimin, underscores the existence of a pre-Columbian settlement on the site of the cathedral. Bretos, however, does not focus so much...

... 4 examines the role of religion in the lives of Ixil's inhabitants. The authors draw not only on the wills, reports of episcopal inspections ( visitas ), and letters from priests but also on religious texts from the Chilam Balam of Ixil, a collection of texts presumably written outside the control...

... understandings of the rationale for her sacred power. Third, the Mayas appear to have viewed Our Lady of Itzmal as a new Mayan divinity, whose apotheosis heralded a new era. The anonymous author of the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel used precontact imagery of new Mayan divinities descending on cords from...