Copy of the Book of Chilam Balam of Ixil in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico
The Books of Chilam Balam (Mayan pronunciation:[t͡ʃilamɓahlam]) are handwritten, chiefly 17th and 18th-centuries Maya miscellanies, named after the small Yucatec towns where they were originally kept, and preserving important traditional knowledge in which indigenous Maya and early Spanish traditions have coalesced. They compile knowledge on history, prophecy, religion, ritual, literature, the calendar, astronomy, and medicine.[1] Written in the Yucatec Maya language and using the Latin alphabet, the manuscripts are attributed to a legendary author called Chilam Balam, a chilam being a priest who gives prophecies and balam a common surname meaning ʼjaguarʼ. Some of the texts actually contain prophecies about the coming of the Spaniards to Yucatán while mentioning a chilam Balam as their first author.[2]
Nine Books of Chilam Balam are known,[3] most importantly those from Chumayel, Maní, and Tizimín,[4] but more have existed. Both language and content show that parts of the books date back to the time of the Spanish conquest of the Yucatec kingdoms (1527–1546). In some cases, where the language is particularly terse, the books appear to render hieroglyphic script, and thus to hark back to the pre-conquest period.
^Paxton, Merideth. "Chilam Balam, Books of." In Davíd Carrasco (ed).The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. : Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780195188431
The Books of ChilamBalam (Mayan pronunciation: [t͡ʃilam ɓahlam]) are handwritten, chiefly 17th and 18th-centuries Maya miscellanies, named after the small...
earth by a group of creator deities, as well as its sequel. The Book of ChilamBalam of Chumayel relates the collapse of the sky and the deluge, followed...
(1511–1697) of Maya religion. The names are mainly taken from the books of ChilamBalam, Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of Diego de Landa,...
16th-century sources (in particular, Diego de Landa and books such as the ChilamBalam of Chumayel). Phonemic analyses of Haabʼ glyph names in pre-Columbian...
Uxmal, ruled northern Yucatan (Chapter II, "The Rise of Hunac Ceel" in ChilamBalam of Chumayel, see translation here). With the assistance of highland forces...
refer to the Christian God. Since the word is found frequently in the ChilamBalam of Chumayel, a syncretistic document heavily influenced by Christianity...
capital, Chable ('Anteater'), is mentioned several times in the books of ChilamBalam as a cycle seat. The Spanish were thoroughly occupied in 'pacifying'...
Kʼicheʼ and parallel columns with translations into Spanish. Like the ChilamBalam and similar texts, the Popol Vuh is of particular importance given the...
Popol Vuh, the Ritual of the Bacabs, and (at least in part) the various ChilamBalam books Secondary sources, chiefly Spanish treatises from the colonial...
Ancient Future of the Itza: The Book of ChilamBalam of Tizimin. The Texas Pan American series (Text of ChilamBalam de Tizimín MS. translated and annotated...
stop (indicated by the apostrophe).[citation needed] Evidence in the ChilamBalam books indicates another, earlier name for this city prior to the arrival...
called yax imix che ('blue-green tree of abundance') by the Book of ChilamBalam of Chumayel. The trunk of the tree could also be represented by an upright...
Classic period. The Short Count is a count of 13 kʼatuns. The Book of ChilamBalam of Chumayel contains the only colonial reference to classic long-count...
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deity. Their written repositories of traditional knowledge, the Books of ChilamBalam, were all ascribed to one famous oracle priest who had correctly predicted...
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were known as chilan or chilam, 'oracular priest' (often translated as 'prophet'; an influential role, with the ChilamBalam as a prime example). The...
only a very brief and somewhat obscure mention of Ix Tab in the Book of ChilamBalam of Tizimin and in the Pérez Codex, in a context of chaos, suffering,...
of ChilamBalam". Climbing. Archived from the original on 10 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023. "Sébastian Bouin Claims Third Ascent of Chilam Balam...
Yucatán (written circa 1566), the Chronicle of Oxcutzkab and the books of ChilamBalam. De Landa records a date that is a Tun ending in the Short Count. Oxkutzcab...
Ain (Itzam Earth Caiman) of a creation myth in some of the Books of ChilamBalam; a case has been made for identifying this caiman as Itzamna's transformation...
Several designations for the pre-Spanish maize god occur in the Book of ChilamBalam of Chumayel. They include ah mun (tender green shoot) and zac uac nal...
'Thirteen-god' was humbled by Bolontiku 'Nine-god'. According to the Book of ChilamBalam of Chumayel, "then the sky would fall, it would fall down, it would fall...
fifth-ever 9b+ in history). Excluded from 9b+: Bernabè Fernandez [es]'s ChilamBalam [fr] (2003), was an unconfirmed and disputed first ascent that Fernandez...
folk hero in Mexico.[citation needed] He was a Freemason, initiated at ChilamBalam Lodge. In 1961, Cantinflas appeared with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson...
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