CORRELATION OF MAYA AND CHRISTIAN CHRONOLOGY. 475 
The third « kahlay katunob from the Book of Chilan Balam of Chumayel is 
the least serviceable of all of the native chronicles. It is, in fact, not a series of 
consecutive katuns at all, but an alternating series of Katuns 4 Ahau and Katuns 
13 Ahau; only in the concluding paragraph are any other katuns mentioned, and 
these are not in order. This source has little value for the reconstruction of Maya 
history.! 
HISTORICAL EVENTS UPON WHICH THE CORRELATION OF THE U KAHLAY 
KATUNOB AND CHRISTIAN CHRONOLOGY IS BASED. 
Having examined the source material, let us next consider the several events 
upon which the correlation of the u kahlay katunob and Christian chronology must 
be based, always bearing in mind that the more detailed the information is in the 
native sources, the greater are the resulting discrepancies, and that it is only in the 
larger points of contact, 1. ¢., the katuns, that we get really striking agreements 
all along the line. 
The writer finds in the foregoing sources seven events which are recorded in 
terms of both chronologies as follows: 
(A) The first appearance of the Spaniards in Yucatan, which was the wreck of Gerénimo 
Aguilar and his companions on the eastern coast of the peninsula in 1511. (I, 
I], II, and IV.) 
(B) The Utes ay a katun ended in 1517, and the implication that it was a Katun 
2 Ahau. (I. 
(C) The massacre of Napot Xiu and other western Maya chieftains at Otzmal in 1536. 
HiviieiVoy. Vie-Vil, Fo, and All.) 
(D) The final pacification of Yucatan in 1541, and the foundation of Merida on Janu- 
arian eee tle Lill VV Vig LX, XX and XII.) 
(E) The arrival of the third bishop, Francisco Toral, in Yucatan between August 1 
and August 15, 1562, which the writer believes signified to the native mind 
the official beginning of Christianity. (I, II, III, IV, VI, TX, X.) 
(F) The death of the fourth bishop, Diego de Landa, on April 29, 1579. (III, IV, VI, 
IX, and X.) 
(G) The statement that the year 1618 fell in a Katun 3 Ahau. (VIII.) 
Event A. 
The date of this event is fixed in Christian chronology by I and II as follows: 
“The year in which first came our Lords the Spaniards here to this land was the year 
et Cakgmes a 
; And hs year the first foreigners came here to the Land of the Cupuls was the year 
1511. In former times no one saw Spanish foreigners, not until Geronimo de Aguilar was 
captured by the natives of Cozumel.’* _(1.) 
“The first Spaniards who landed in Yucatan, as they say, were Geronimo de Aguilar, a 
native of Ecija, and his companions, who in the year 1511, in the turmoil in Darien on 
account of the dissensions between Diego de Nicueza and Vasco Nunez de Balboa, followed 
1The Book of Chilan Balam of Chumayel is first mentioned by Brinton (1882, p. 152) as being in the posses- 
sion of Bishop Carrillo y Ancona. The text Brinton published was the copy made by Berendt in 1868. After 
the death of Bishop Carrillo y Ancona the original text appeared in the possession of the Bishop’s lawyer, Don 
Ricardo Figueroa, who also had the Tizimin, Kaua, and Ixil manuscripts. Through the kindness of Don Audo- 
maro Molina of Merida, Gordon was permitted to bring the original back to Philadelphia in 1910, where a photo- 
graphic copy was made which was published in 1913. See Gordon, 1913. The original was subsequently returned 
to Figueroa, in whose house the writer saw it in 1913. It was removed to the Cepeda library facing the Parque 
Hidalgo in Merida in 1915 for safe-keeping, but when the writer visited Yucatan in 1918 he was told that it had 
disappeared from the library and that its present whereabouts were unknown. In view of its doubtful fate, it 
is nothing short of providential that two photographic copies of it exist, the one made by Maler in 1887, a copy of 
which is now in the Gates collection, and the other made by Gordon in 1910, 
2Al] the Christian dates throughout this Appendix are Old Style, even including those subsequent to 1582, 
when the Gregorian Calendar was first introduced. 
3Brinton, 1882, p. 216. 4Ibid., p. 226. 
