An Annotated Translation of a Colonial Yucatec Manuscript:
On Religious and Cosmological Topics by a Native Author

(God as Creator)

Endnotes #164-172

164. The words can and lum are written in another hand below the double line.

165. A restatement of the example given in Coronel’s Arte: Vtz yutzcinci tulacal, bene omnia fecit (Acuña 1998:64).

166. The phrase yokol cab y. tu yanal cab repeats throughout these teachings.

167. The syllable sih appears at the bottom of p. 167. The practice in books of the day was to write a guide syllable to the first word of the following page, to facilitate pagination. Normally, sih would be the first syllable on p. 168, but it does not appear here. Either the scribe made a mistake, or a page (or more) is missing.

168. u sih = u sihsah? Otherwise, the birth of Adam?

169. sic.

170. This word, bibikancilob, which appears also on p. 166 in reference to the snakes that wriggle, must reflect the repeated mention of "creeping things" in the first chapter of Genesis. See for example, Genesis 1: 26: "Then God said, ’Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the seas, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’"

171. While the first part of the Creation derives from Genesis, these lines seem to refer to Christ’s healing a deaf man by anointing his ears with saliva, a miracle related in Mark 7:34.

172. See Ezekiel 37:5-7, "Thus says the Lord God to these bones: ’Behold I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.’ So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone."

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