author. Nine Books of Chilam Balam are known, most importantly those from Chumayel, Maní, and Tizimín, but more have existed. Both language and content show...

Chumayel Municipality (In the Yucatec Maya Language: “place of seeds") is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (45.99 km2) of land...

The Short Count is a count of 13 kʼatuns. The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel contains the only colonial reference to classic long-count dates. The most...

Christian God. Since the word is found frequently in the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, a syncretistic document heavily influenced by Christianity, it refers...

northern Yucatan (Chapter II, "The Rise of Hunac Ceel" in Chilam Balam of Chumayel, see translation here). With the assistance of highland forces, he attacked...

sources (in particular, Diego de Landa and books such as the Chilam Balam of Chumayel). Phonemic analyses of Haabʼ glyph names in pre-Columbian Maya inscriptions...

the Late Classic Period, is recorded both in the book of Chilam Balam de Chumayel and in hieroglyphic texts in the ruins. Chichén Itzá is located in the...

(An Ah Puch is mentioned in the opening of the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel in passing as a ruler of the North, and one of the Xibalba attendants in...

designations for the pre-Spanish maize god occur in the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel. They include ah mun (tender green shoot) and zac uac nal (white six new...

The Itza were known as water witches. According to the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, in 325, they started immigrating to Bacalar from Peten. From there many...