I visited Chichen itza today to pay respects to the great itza elders, for giving us so much wisdom and inspiration to understand our past and decode our future.
i am posting some of my photos of my trip today along with some Mayan stories for you to enjoy a bit of this magnificent culture the great Maya!!!!
But before we get into that let's understand more of the Maya, the itza people were a tribe that belong to the maya but during those times actually they were many ruling families, that dominated the entire Central America region, TUTUL XIUS were also an important family of Mayan ruling power controlling uxmal, Mani and MAYAPAN, the COCOMES were probably the must powerful of all they dominated large kingdoms stretching as far as Guatemala and Central America.
The cocome family fought the uxmal family as they joined forces with the ah Canul, their leader and one of my favorite Mayan hero is HUNAAC CEEL, meaning the young and great in maya, the story goes he was captured in war by the itza kingdom and was thrown out!! Into the CENOTE SAGRADO in Chichen Itza
During the ceremony he was thrown into the cenote to El Pozo de los Itzaes ( Chichen Itza ) Hunaac Ceel survived and returned proclaiming to be a direct messenger from the underworld gods, naming himself the great Ahau of Mayapan!! A tittle only given to the gods, the story is portrayed in detail in the CHILAN BALAM, the Maya Itzaes gave the honorable tittle to Hunaac Ceel as the great HALACH UINIK!!!
Halach Uinik means in Maya man on charge, controlling politics and religion, the Kuchkabal it's now days the municipal district, here Hunaac Ceel was given higher authority in command of the troops and priesthood religious power.
The cocomes during the command of Hunaac Ceel declare war on the Itzaes, turning Chichen Itza into a ghost town, for few generations after being ruled and slaved the Tutul Xius started a revolution against the cocome, killing the ruling family, therefore destroying the ruling hand of the kingdom, without a ruler society can't exist, by this time the Spanish arrival started the bloody conquest and Francisco de Montejo used the same strategy of Cortes, gather troops from neighboring tribes that wanted Babylon to be destroyed he used the pretext to liberate the TUTUL XIUS from the cocome and later on destroying them with diseases, religious convergence and inquisition.
Reminder guys Mayapan was the center of all ruling families this was the Vatican of the maya, conformed by the kingdoms of Uxmal, and Chichen Itza, according to the legend there was a prince of Chichen Itza and the queen of Mayapan, but the queen was engaged to the king of Uxmal, but before the queen marry the prince of Uxmal fell in love with her and he kidnap her with the entire town, when the prince went to look for her the entire town of uxmal was empty, this story is known as Chichen Itza y la Princesa sac Nicte.
According to the real story the Itzaes, were casted away from their own city they built chichen itza, casted to live in the jungle for 40 years! After they returned they formed Mayapan..
The legend and beautiful story of Canek ( Black Snake ) the ruling prince of Chichen Itza.
When he was seven years old he killed a butterfly, he smashes it with his own hand coloring his fingers with many translucent colors, that might he dreamt he became a worm.
When he was two times 7 years old he he found a deer trapped and killed him, offering his heart to the underworld gods, that night he dreamt of being a thirsty tiger.
When he was three times 7 years old, he became prince of the Itzaes, that day he saw the queen Sac Nicte, that night he didn't dream because he had no sleep, he cried all night because he fell in love with the queen of Mayapan!!
The story of the old midget
The night when Canek met the queen of Mayapan and fell in love, an old midget appeared to him, whispering "The white flower is waiting between the fresh white leafs, are you going let him take it?" And the dwarf disappeared into the inner earth.
The queen cried for days! The king of of Mayapan arrived with gifts coming from across all maya world from copan, qibilba, yaxchilan, nachankaan, by this time Canek has not arrived and the priest needs to start the ceremony, the stats are aligning and the ceremony must begin!! The strong smell of copal was in the air, and Canek arrived with 60 of his must powerful deadly warriors took the princess off the Altar and kidnap her!
Uxmal and Mayapan gather forces towards Chichen itza, but when they arrived the city was empty they left to Guatemala area of peten towards tayasal, the city was destroyed and abandoned to this day..
Anyways this are some of the stories by the maya, I wish I could write more but I am on my Iphone staring at a midget screen, I hope I can fix my laptop soon!!
Thanks for reading amigos and hope u like my travel photos of chichen itza today
Memo
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