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The books of Chilan Balam: the prophetic and historic records of the Mayas of Yucatan

Books of the Jaguar Priest
The books of Chilan Balam: the prophetic and historic records of the Mayas of Yucatan

Signs of the months from books of Mayan prophecy and history, including information collected by the Maya over centuries, from the pre-Conquest through early Colonial periods. They were written in the Mayan language in European script in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

 
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