The annals of the cakchiquels

by Daniel G. Brinton; language: english and cakchiquel; 1885
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CONTENTS.

  • PREFACE, v
  • INTRODUCTION, 9
    Ethnologic Position of the Cakchiquels, 9
    Culture of the Cakchiquels, 13
    The Capital City of the Cakchiquels, 21
    Computation of Time, 28
    Personal and Family Names, 32
    Tribal Subdivisions, 33
    Terms of Affinity and Salutation, 34
    Titles and Social Castes, 35
    Religious Notions, 39
    The Cakchiquel Language, 48
    The Annals of Xahila, 53
    Synopsis of the Annals, 60
    Remarks on the Printed Text, 62
  • The Annals of the Cakchiquels, by a Member of the Xahila Family, 66-194
  • Notes, 195-200
  • Vocabulary, 209
  • Index of Proper Names, 229


    [i]

    LIBRARY

    OF

    Aboriginal American

    Literature.

    No. VI.

    EDITED BY

    D. G. BRINTON

    [ii]

    [iii]

    BRINTON’S LIBRARY OF
    ABORIGINAL AMERICAN LITERATURE.
    NUMBER VI.

    THE ANNALS

    OF THE

    CAKCHIQUELS.

    THE ORIGINAL TEXT, WITH A TRANSLATION, NOTES AND
    INTRODUCTION.

    BY

    DANIEL G. BRINTON

    1885, Philadelphia

    [iv]

    [v]



    Transcriber’s Note

    A number of typographical errors have been maintained in the current version of this book. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in the popup. A list of these errors is found at the end of this book.

    The following less-common characters are found in this book: ă (a with breve), ā (a with macron). If they do not display correctly, please try changing your font.

    The following words were inconsistently spelled:

    anté / ante
    halebal / halibal

    The following words had inconsistent hyphenation:

    Ahtzib / Ah-tzib
    Ahuchan / Ah-uchan
    calpulli / calp-ulli
    honeycomb / honey-comb
    kikan / ki-kan

    The following errors and inconsistencies have been maintained.

    Misspelled words and typographical errors:

    • Page Error
      29 Second cacao harvest should read Second cacao harvest.
      30 20. Hunahpu, should read 20. Hunahpu.
      33 moroever should read moreover
      47 Dicc. Anon should read Dicc. Anon.
      48 Pokoman should read Pokomam
      51 gutteral should read guttural
      51 magic candle should read magic candle
      58 Quikab should read Qikab
      61 agains should read against
      13, fn. 1 Baschmann should read Buschmann
      38, fn. 1 Cakchiquel Anon should read Cakchiquel Anon.
      57, fn. 1 d,the should read d, the
      88 ahpopcamahay. ha should read either ahpopcamahay, ha or ahpopcamahay. Ha
    110 Bacahol the h was printed upside down in the original.
    111 youself should read yourself
    119 without, should read without.
    119 Caybatz.” should read Caybatz.
    133 Vxa. should read Vxa
    136 achiha. maqui should read either achiha; maqui or achiha. Maqui
    139 Vucubatz should read Vukubatz
    147 Oxlahu tzii should read Oxlahuh tzii
    148 vinak. hucumah should read either vinak. Hucumah or vinak, hucumah
    188 Oh should read On
    189 litle should read little
    190 Ig should read Yg
    196 our should read four
    197 etaient should read étaient
    201 Civilisèes should read Civilisées
    202 qaq xanul should read qaq xanul
    204 qaqavitz should read qaqavitz
    208 173. should read 172.
    208 181. The second 181 should not appear, it refers to the same section as the preceding pargraph
    209 mayor. should read mayor.”
    209 Ah-dzib, should read Ah-dzib.
    212 Anon). should read Anon.).
    215 p, 64 should read p. 64
    217 etc should read etc.
    218 mountain should read mountain.
    218 To put one should read To put to one
    219 she it should read she, it
    219 Tak (first listing) is out of alphabetical order
    222 See Xa should read See Xa
    223 Asieñto should read Asiento
    223 qana abah is out of alphabetical order
    224 ciyaley is out of alphabetical order
    225 qaq should read qaq,
    225 chacbal is out of alphabetical order
    229 106, should read 106.
    231 194 should read 184

    Source: Project Gutenberg.
    Produced by David Starner, Julia Miller, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

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