The Chajoma (Mayan pronunciation:[/tʃäχoˈmä/]) were a Kaqchikel-speaking Maya people of the Late Postclassic period, with a large kingdom in the highlands of Guatemala.[2] According to the indigenous chronicles of the K'iche' and the Kaqchikel, there were three principal Postclassic highland kingdoms; the K'iche', the Kaqchikel and the Chajoma.[3] In the Annals of the Cakchiquels the Chajoma of Jilotepeque were always referred to as the akajal vinak, in the Popul Vuh these can probably be identified with the akul vinak.[4] Both akajal vinak and akul vinak mean "the bee people" or "the hive people".[5]
Chajoma means "people of ocote" (a type of pine).[6] In colonial times this was rendered into Nahuatl as sacatepēc "Grass mountain" which led to its current Hispanicized name Sacatepéquez.[6] Early records, for example, record the placename San Juan Sacatepéquez as San Juan Chajoma.[6] The Chajoma separated into six divisions, equivalent to the various colonial villages bearing Sacatepéquez in the name.[7]
The Chajoma (Mayan pronunciation: [/tʃäχoˈmä/]) were a Kaqchikel-speaking Maya people of the Late Postclassic period, with a large kingdom in the highlands...
The most important were the Kʼicheʼ, the Kaqchikel, the Tzʼutujil, the Chajoma, the Mam, the Poqomam and the Pipil. All were Maya groups except for the...
Jilotepeque Viejo, the capital of the Chajoma Kaqchikel kingdom. To distinguish between the two, the ruins of the Chajoma capital are now referred to as Mixco...
book Annals of the Cakchiquels, also known as Memorial de Sololá. The Chajoma were another Kaqchikel-speaking people; the ruins of Mixco Viejo have been...
early capital of the Chajoma, a Kaqchikel-speaking Maya people, recorded in the Annals of the Cakchiquels. The kingdom of the Chajoma was at one point considered...
ISBN 99922-56-19-2. OCLC 47220876. Hill, Robert M. II (1996). "Eastern Chajoma (Cakchiquel) Political Geography: Ethnohistorical and archaeological contributions...
Kowoj, Yalain and Kejache in Petén, and the Mam, Ki'che', Kackchiquel, Chajoma, Tz'utujil, Poqomchi', Q'eqchi' and Ch'orti' peoples in the highlands....
village of Mixco. There are no direct sources describing the conquest of the Chajoma by the Spanish but it appears to have been a drawn-out campaign rather...
Guatemala. Sacul, Texas, a community in the USA. Sacul, a small Maya archaeological site belonging to the Postclassic Chajoma kingdom of highland Guatemala....
Gonzalo de Alvarado y Contreras after a lengthy siege Huehuetenango 1526 Chajoma rebel against the Spanish Guatemala 1526 Acasaguastlán given in encomienda...
Gonzalo de Alvarado y Contreras after a lengthy siege Huehuetenango 1526 Chajoma rebel against the Spanish Guatemala 1526 Acasaguastlán given in encomienda...
Kaqchikel wars of expansion, either Chopena-Tzʼiʼkin Uka or Chopena-Tohin. Chajoma Chitinamit Centro de Acción Legal - Ambiental y Social de Guatemala (CALAS)...
of the original stonework and plaster coating is visible. Cerro Quiac Chajoma Iximche Mixco Viejo Kelly 1996, pp.203, 207. Sharer 2000, p.490. Fox 1987...