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XVII

(AN INCANTATION)

Strung end to end are the precious stones, the red precious stones,
representing the substance of heaven, the moisture of heaven. 3 <#fn_609>

The form in which you created the sun, <in which> you created the earth!
The form of the moisture of heaven, the substance of heaven, the yellow
blossom 4 <#fn_610> of heaven! How did I create your sun? <How did I>
create your moon? How did I create your precious stones? I created you.
When you were sprinkled with water, you remembered the force of the sun.
Then when the message was sent to you ... Under cover I created you, I
set you <where you are>. From time to time I take <you>, I perceive your
vigor because of your father. You await ... that I may take away ...
from your mouth. They are the yellow precious stones. So runs its course
as he records 5 <#fn_611> it. These are the rulers 6 <#fn_612> which
have been set in order. Go and read it and you will understand it. 7
<#fn_613>

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Footnotes

131:1 <cbc21.htm#fr_610> The text reads /un trus nicte/. /Nicte/ is a
flower, usually the Plumeria. /Trus/, since it contains an r is probably
a distorted Spanish word. The translation given here is derived from a
comparison of the use of the expression on p. 118 of B.L.C. No. 43 and
that of a similar Maya phrase, /oxlahun tzuc nicte/ on page 174 of the
same manuscript. The translator is inclined to associate this expression
with the love-charm described by Aguilar (Aguilar 1892, p. 84;
translated in Saville 1921, p. 207).

131:2 <cbc21.htm#fr_611> Maya, /pectzil/. This word usually means news
or what is said of some one. Here something concrete appears to be
intended, and the word has been divided into its component parts, /pec/
and /tzil/, which give a very different meaning.

131:3 <cbc22.htm#fr_612> Maya: /kab caan itz caan/. When asked who he
was, Itzamat-ul, a deified ruler of Izamal, replied: "/Itz en caan, itz
en muyal/." This has been translated: "/Yo soy el rocío, ó sustancia del
cielo y nubes/" (Cogolludo 1868, Book 4, chap. 8).

131:4 <cbc22.htm#fr_613> /Cf./ p. 65, note  9 <cbc06.htm#fn_52>.

131:5 <cbc22.htm#fr_614> To obtain this meaning /¢olic/ (he skins it)
has been changed to /tzolic/ (he records it).

131:6 <cbc22.htm#fr_615> Ahau (ruler) is the day for which the katun is
named.

131:7 <cbc22.htm#fr_616> This very difficult passage differs in
vocabulary and style from the rest of the MS. The spaces left in the
text indicate that the Eighteenth Century compiler copied it from a
defective original. Its unique style resembles that of Gates' Ritual of
the Bacabs, which was probably written in eastern Yucatan, judging from
a comparison of the latter with the Titulos de Ebtun. The translator is
familiar only with a few extracts from the Ritual of the Bacabs, but it
is possible that the above passage has been copied from that manuscript.
/Cf./ Tozzer 1921, p. 196. We suggest that this is an invocation to the
growing corn. Possibly the last three sentences refer to the following
chapter.

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