Annals of the Cakchiquel

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The Annals of the Cakchiquel , and Los Anales de los Cakchiqueles , Anales de los Xahil , Memorial de Tecpán-Atitlán or Memorial de Sololá , is in Cakchiquel written history and mythology of the Cakchiquel .

The manuscript was written by members of the Xahil family, in particular Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá between 1560 and 1583 and his grandson Francisco Rojas between 1583 and 1604. It stands next to very few other literary evidence, the works written during the colonial period in a Mayan language but with Latin script . These include the Popol Vuh ( Quiché ) and the Chilam Balam ( Mayatan ) as well as the lesser-known songs by Dzitbalché (Mayatan) and Rab'inal Achí ( Achí ). The annals, like the above-mentioned writings, give a slightly modified insight into Mayan culture . The manuscript is considered an important source of research on the postclassical Maya civilization in the highlands of Guatemala .

In terms of content, embedded in a gloomy atmosphere, the framework of the hike from the mythical place of origin Tula into the highlands of Guatemala, the ascent and establishment there right up to submission by the Conquista are depicted.

Originally, the text was kept by descendants of the Xahil in the city of Sololá before it came to the archives of the San Francisco de Guatemala monastery. It was discovered there in 1844 . Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg translated it in 1855 and after a few more stops it was published by Daniel Garrison Brinton in 1885.

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