An Account of the Things of Yucatan: Written by the Bishop of Yucatan, Based on the Oral Traditions of the Ancient Mayas by Fray Diego de Landa [Relación de las cosas de Yucatán.English] [An Account of the Things of Yucatan taken from the writings of Fray Diego de Landa of the Franciscan Order -- Description of Yucatan. The various seasons -- Etymology of the province's name. Its position -- Captivity of Geronimo de Aguilar. The expeditions of Hernandez de Cordoba and Grijalva to Yucatan -- Expedition of Cones to Cozumel. A letter to Aguilar and his companions -- Provinces of Yucatan, The most important ancient buildings -- Kukulkan. The founding of Mayaptin -- Government priesthood, science, letters and books in Yucatan etc]

Diego de Landa, 1524-1579

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174 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9789709019025, 9709019023 ; OCLC 52697577 ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Diego de Landa Calderón, O.F.M. was a Spanish Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He led a campaign against idolatry and human sacrifice. In doing so, he burned Maya manuscripts which contained knowledge of Maya religion and civilization, and the history of the American continent. Nonetheless, his work in documenting and researching the Maya was indispensable in achieving the current understanding of their culture, to the degree that Mayanist William Gates asserted that "ninety-nine percent of what we today know of the Mayas, we know as the result either of what Landa has told us in the pages that follow, or have learned in the use and study of what he told". He also described that "it is an equally safe statement that.he burned ninety-nine times as much knowledge of Maya history and sciences as he has given us" -- wikipedia ; Contents: An Account of the Things of Yucatan taken from the writings of Fray Diego de Landa of the Franciscan Order -- Description of Yucatan. The various seasons -- Etymology of the province's name. Its position -- Captivity of Geronimo de Aguilar. The expeditions of Hernandez de Cordoba and Grijalva to Yucatan -- Expedition of Cones to Cozumel. A letter to Aguilar and his companions -- Provinces of Yucatan, The most important ancient buildings -- Kukulkan. The founding of Mayaptin -- Government priesthood, science, letters and books in Yucatan -- Arrival of the Tutul-Xiti and the alliance they made with the rulersof Maya pan, The Tyranny of Cocom. The loss of his power and the fall of the city of Mayapan -- Chronological monuments of Mayapan. Founding of the Zotuta reign. Origin of the Cheles. The three principal realms in Yucatan -- Several disasters suffered in Yucatan in the century before the Conquest: hurricanes, plagues, wars, etc. -- Prophesies about the arrival of the Spanish. Biography of Francisco de Montejo, first governor general of Yucatan -- Montejo sails to Yocatan and takes possession of The country The Chels yield to him the town of Chichen-Itz -- The Indians oblige him to leave them -- Montejo leaves Yucatan with his men and goes to Mexico. His son, Francisco de Montejo, afterwards pacifies the land -- The position of Yucatan after the departure of the Spanish. Don Francisco, the governor's son, reestablishes Spanish rule in Yucatan -- The cruelty of the Spanish to the natives. How they excused themselves -- The state of thye country before the Conquest. An uprising. A royal decree in favor of the Indians. Death of Governor Montejo. His descendants -- Arrival of the Spanish Franciscan friars in Yucatan. The protection they gave to the natives. Their troubles with the encomenderos -- The vices of the Indians. The friars study the language of the country. Their teachings to the Natives. The punishments for apostates -- The arrival of Bishop Toral. Release of arbitrarily imprisoned Indians. Landes voyage to Spain to justify the acts of the Franciscans -- The fasion of building houses in Yucatan. The obedience and respect of the Indians for their rulers Their way of adorning their heads and wearing their clothes -- The food and drink of the Indians of Yucatan -- The Indian's painting and tattoing. Their drunkenness, Feasts, pantomimes, music and dances -- Industry, trade and money. Agricultre and seeds. Justice and hospitality -- Method of counting of the Yucatecans. -- Kind of confessions among the Indians. Abstinences and superstitions. Diversity and abundance of idols. Duties of the priests -- Sacrifices and self-mortifications, both cruel & obscene, among the Yucatecans. Human victims slain by arrows, & others -- Arms of the Yucatecans. Military chieftains. Militia & soldiers. Customs of war -- Penalties and punishments for adulterers, homicides & thieves. Education of the young men. Custom of flattening the heads of children, etc; FINE.

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An Account of the Things of Yucatan: Written by the Bishop of Yucatan, Based on the Oral Traditions of the Ancient Mayas by Fray Diego de Landa [Relación de las cosas de Yucatán.English] [An Account of the Things of Yucatan taken from the writings of Fray Diego de Landa of the Franciscan Order -- Description of Yucatan. The various seasons -- Etymology of the province's name. Its position -- Captivity of Geronimo de Aguilar. The expeditions of Hernandez de Cordoba and Grijalva to Yucatan -- Expedition of Cones to Cozumel. A letter to Aguilar and his companions -- Provinces of Yucatan, The most important ancient buildings -- Kukulkan. The founding of Mayaptin -- Government priesthood, science, letters and books in Yucatan etc]
Auteur
Diego de Landa, 1524-1579
Éditeur
Monclem Ediciones, Mexico, 2000
Année de publication
2000
État de l'article
Fine
Type de livre
Book
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Soft cover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
9709019023
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9789709019025

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