: The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature Number 1 by Brinton Daniel G Daniel Garrison Editor - Mayas Antiquities; Maya language Texts; Maya language Glossaries vocabularies etc.; Mayas History Native America

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INTRODUCTION.

? 1. The Name Maya, p. 9. ? 2. The Maya Linguistic Family, p. 17. ? 3. Origin of the Maya Tribes, p. 20. ? 4. Political Condition at the Time of the Conquest, p. 25. ? 5. Grammatical Observations, p. 27. ? 6. The Numeral System, p. 37. ? 7. The Calendar, p. 50. ? 8. Ancient Hieroglyphic Books, p. 61. ? 9. Modern Maya Manuscripts, p. 67. ? 10. Grammars and Dictionaries, p. 72.

THE CHRONICLES.

INTRODUCTORY p. 81

THE CHRONICLE OF CHAC XULUB CHEN.

Introductory, p. 189. Text, p. 193. Translation, p. 216. Notes, p. 242.

VOCABULARY p. 261

INTRODUCTION.

In his second voyage, Columbus heard vague rumors of a mainland westward from Jamaica and Cuba, at a distance of ten days' journey in a canoe. Its inhabitants were said to be clothed, and the specimens of wax which were found among the Cubans must have been brought from there, as they themselves did not know how to prepare it.

During his fourth voyage , when he was exploring the Gulf southwest from Cuba, he picked up a canoe laden with cotton clothing variously dyed. The natives in it gave him to understand that they were merchants, and came from a land called MAIA.

This is the first mention in history of the territory now called Yucatan, and of the race of the Mayas; for although a province of similar name was found in the western extremity of the island of Cuba, the similarity was accidental, as the evidence is conclusive that no colony of the Mayas was found on the Antilles. These islands were peopled by a wholly different stock, the remnants of whose language prove them to have been the northern outposts of the Arawacks of Guiana, and allied to the great Tupi-Guaranay stem of South America.

MAYA was the patrial name of the natives of Yucatan. It was the proper name of the northern portion of the peninsula. No single province bore it at the date of the Conquest, and probably it had been handed down as a generic term from the period, about a century before, when this whole district was united under one government.

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