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1332:, the Generals. There were four of these Generals, one for each direction. Nonetheless, during the war of liberation, it was the generals of the north and of the south who garnered the most space in the Spanish and British colonial press. The first General of the North was Cecilio Chi, who served from 1847 until his death in May 1849 and was victorious at Valladolid and Iz'amal. The second General of the North was Venancio Pec, who served from 1849 to 1852. The first General of the South was Jacinto Pat, who served from 1847 until his assassination in December 1849, and who was victorious at Peto, Tekax, and Tikul. The second General of the South was Florentino Chan, who served from 1849 to 1852. Other military ranks have included 1324:, the supreme commander of Maya military forces. This position was held by several different individuals. There is some evidence that the first, most effective, and longest serving General of the Plaza was Bernardino Cen. The last fully recognized General of the Plaza was General May, who signed the final peace treaties with the Mexican government in the 1930s and 1940s. Subsequent attempts to revive the generalship have failed to garner the support of the community as a whole, and the military survives primarily as an honor guard for the Maya Church. Under the 168: 768:, which ceded all of the independent Mayan state's lands to Mexico. At around the same era, the Creoles on the west side of the Yucatán peninsula began to acknowledge that their minority-ruled mini-state was not politically viable long-term. After the Creoles offered their country to any group who would be willing to defend their lives and property, Mexico accepted. With both legal pretext and a convenient staging area in the western side of the Yucatán peninsula, Chan Santa Cruz was occupied by the Mexican army in the early years of the 20th century. 496: 327: 341: 1106:(Little or Female Tree). In addition to the village patron cross and the household crosses, there are special lineage crosses for important lines, four guardian crosses at the entrances to town, and other crosses that guard sinkholes and wells. The Maya Cruzoob religion in the 21st century is quite mixed in practice: some followers devoted exclusively to the indigenous church and its ritual calendar, while other followers are exclusively or partially Roman Catholic, Protestant or Evangelical. 792: 230: 66: 521: 933: 25: 1877: 757:, originally the Mayan holy city of Bak Halal (meaning 'decanting water'). They killed many British citizens, along with the entire Yucatec Creole garrison. It is unclear why the commanding general ordered a wholesale slaughter of the garrison. Regardless of his motives, this action frightened the tiny British colonial establishment in neighboring British Honduras. 725:. Alongside associated buffer and splinter groups, this state was the core of a broader indigenous independence movement that controlled virtually all of the old Iz'a territories. These lands included the eastern, central, and southern portions of the Yucatán peninsula, extending from Cape Catoche down towards what is now northwestern 820:
arrived, leading the first of the Franciscan Missions to the Maya in the second half of the 16th century, he began a Mayan encyclopedia project. He intended to collect the prayers, orations, commentaries, and descriptions of native life as aids to the Spanish overthrow of Maya culture in general and
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Various treaties with Mexico called the "Letters of General May" were signed by the leaders of the indigenous state through the late 1930s and 1940s. Following General May's death, the remaining Maya officials initiated contact with the United States government through the archaeologist and American
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The shrines of the "talking crosses" remain a vital part of local culture in former lands of Chan Santa Cruz in the 21st century. As recently as 2002, the Mexican government finally lifted the stigma of witchcraft that indigenous priests had been subject to under Mexican civil and Roman church law.
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independent nation, even sponsoring treaty negotiations between the Mexican Hispanic Yucateco state and the Maya Cruzoob state. These negotiations resulted in a signed international treaty which was never ratified by either party. The Maya state had extensive trade relations with the British colony
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by the Mexicans, reached its high tide in 1848. It resulted in the independence of the old Itzá Maya state that would become Chan Santa Cruz. The former Xiu Maya state remained in the hands of the Yucateco Creoles. The descendants of this short-lived Maya free state and those who live like them are
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When the Criollo class declared Yucatecan independence in the mid-19th century and began fighting over control of the resources of their infant state, the Maya leadership saw an opportunity to gain independence. Letters discovered in the 21st century show that they had been planning this action for
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Most Maya Cruzoob religious officials were — and are — unpaid, or are paid by donations from wealthy or devout members of the community. These officials are typically among the oldest and most impoverished of the community, having distributed most of their personal property to finance associated
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in Spanish). Appended to the Proclamation are the former state's constitution and by-laws. In addition to military service requirements — as the constitution was written in time of war — and support for the indigenous church, equal and fair treatment was promised to Maya people (and those of any
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is usually translated as a collection of medical texts. The first half of the book is comparable to the books of Chilam Balam of Chumayel and Tizimin and contains Maya songs, advice, prayers and ritual speeches. These texts include ones concerning: the Maya Pontiff; the Chiuoh lineage; seers and
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The city was laid out in the pre-Columbian Maya style, with a central square containing the Balam Nah, the 'Patron Saint's House', surrounded by the school to the east, the Pontiff's house to the west, the General's houses to the north, and the storehouses and market to the south.
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novice diviners; a midwife's prayer; and a renewal prayer for the divining seeds. The second half of this book is comparable to the second half of the Chilam Balam of Kauá and Maya herbals, and similarly contains mostly herbal or medical remedies for a wide variety of ailments.
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The Maya elders who participated in this project, including Juan Na Chi Kokom, former leader of the Itza' state in eastern Yucatan, were most likely willing volunteers who thought the project was a way to preserve Maya culture and religion. After the project was
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that reemerged when the Spanish colonists' civil war released the Maya from the Yucatán Hispanic population's religious repression. The indigenous priests had maintained their ancient religious texts and their spiritual knowledge, as they continue to do today.
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The emergence of Chan Santa Cruz in the 19th century meant that for the first time in centuries, the Maya were in charge of a state that supported their indigenous faith. The Roman Church had consistently refused to ordain native Maya even as
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state, sometimes sponsored by the British government in Honduras; the United Kingdom; Mexico; and Guatemala. Chan Santa Cruz officials also corresponded with members of the United States government in Washington.
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of Chichimilla, Antonio Manuel Ay, on August 26, 1847 (6 Kaban, 5 Xul). The letters were written at a sanctuary plaza at Saki', the sacred 'white' city of the north that was located near present-day
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include: daily reminders for diviners; natal charts for each day; rituals associated with each day; direction for the selection, training and initiation of Maya calendar priests; a Maya
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Holy Crosses are physical crosses that must be guarded and fed several times a day according to Cruzoob tradition. Every householder has a small domestic cross clothed in a diminutive
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village and town housed the Holy Cross in a sanctuary. Maya churches are easily distinguished from Roman Catholic churches by the presence of a walled inner sanctum, the
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After the Spanish began to occupy nearby areas, the Xiu Maya state in the western half of the Yucatán Peninsula chose to ally with the newly-neighboring Empire. The
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The province of Uaan remained largely unknown to the Spanish, but its provincial capital of Chable (meaning 'anteater') was mentioned several times in the books of
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Mexican occupation did not end resistance by the indigenous Maya, who continued to conduct guerrilla attacks against the Mexicans under the leadership of General
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to disentangle Her Majesty's Government from indigenous free states and from the Chan Santa Cruz state in particular. In 1893, the British Government signed the
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At its greatest extent, from the 1860s through the 1890s, the Chan Santa Cruz state encompassed all of the southern and central parts of the Mexican state of
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is a collection of songs, prayers and ritual speeches. This collection includes traditional girls' songs, prayers for seating images, and other traditions.
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some time. These letters were written orders sent through an established military chain of command, and were written in the wake of the death of the
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Chan Santa Cruz made treaties and corresponded with several other recognized and partially-recognized governments. These include treaties with: the
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Before Spanish colonization, the people in the land that would become the Chan Santa Cruz state were predominantly indigenous descendants of the
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these figures need to be described in ways that more closely resemble how they have been invoked in actual Maya texts and religious practices.
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and other self-sacrifices; pilgrimage places; the Maya years and cycles; advice to pregnant women; and descriptions of Maya family life.
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They recognized the Church of the Talking Cross as a legitimate religion, and installed a plaque on a shrine in Carrillo Puerto.
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the western half of the Itzá state during the 18th century. The most famous of the Spanish campaigns was against the indigenous
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The Cruzoob movement has two great annual festivals, both descended from the two annual festivals of the pre-Columbian Maya.
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contains much of the Spanish explanatory text of this encyclopedia without quoting any of the indigenous texts.
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continued to train and educate indigenous Maya leaders in the sanctuaries of the southern province, such as
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Maya Cruzoob religious figures and concepts are referred to through a variety of names and terms.
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at Chan Santa Cruz was Jose Maria Barrera, who held the position until his assassination in 1852.
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The Maya free state formally declared independence in the "Proclamation of Juan de la Cruz" (
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One notable aspect of the Maya free state was the reappearance of Maya religion in a partly
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The State of the Cross was proclaimed in 1849 in Xocén, a south-eastern satellite of modern
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form, sometimes called "The Cult of The Talking Cross". This was likely a continuation of
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From the late 1850s through 1893, the United Kingdom recognized the Maya free state as a
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The Crusoob also celebrate a Mass and Novenas, which always include offerings of corn
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The Indian Christ, The Indian King: the indigenous substrate of Maya myth and ritual
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The archaeologist was a spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence
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was Manual Nahuat, who held the role from 1847 until his death on March 23, 1851.
780: 362: 1640:(Translated) The Ancient Future of the Itza: The book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin 1550:(Publication 438 ed.). Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute of Washington. 1897: 1858:. Thesis in social anthropology. Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana1981. 1169:(Wise Star), one of four Cardinals who held forth from the four holy cities: 852: 830: 804: 772: 427: 1284:, a civil official at the level of provincial governor or higher. The first 1071:(The Day of The Cross) is the ancient Maya New (365-day) Year Festival and 1032: 871: 840: 722: 663:. Exactly three days after Ay's death, the eastern Maya, now identified as 626: 592: 567: 555: 551: 539: 1522:(1. pbk. print ed.). Berkeley, Cal: University of California Press. 1191:(Star), one of eight Archbishops in the Maya church, now a disused role. 619: 1415:
The Uprising of the Men in Loincloths / Guerra de las Castas en Yucatán
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Arzapalo Marín, Ramón, 1987, El Ritual de los Bacabes, UNAM, Mexico.
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Chan Santa Cruz: Historia de unacomunidad cimarrona de Quintana Roo
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is now the Supreme Pontiff of the Maya church and is known as the
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Ambivalent Conquest: Spaniard and Maya in the Yucatan peninsula
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Unfinished conversations: Mayas and foreigners between two wars
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The regional capitals in Bak Halal, Chun Pom, Vigia Chico, and
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Ambivalent conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
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Middle American Research Series, Publication 2, New Orleans.
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All this changed after the Maya laid siege to and conquered
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Proskouriakoff, Tatiana, 1961. "Lords of the Maya Realm".
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The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan
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race) who consented to the sovereignty of the new state.
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the Maya religion, specifically. Diego de Landa's famous
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Heaven Born Merida: The book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
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were probably laid out on the same plan as the capital.
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Materials for a bibliography of the cast war in Yucatan
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prayer; details of sacrifices at the sacred well of
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Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 1622: 1616: 1474: 1412: 1181:, now the city of Merida, in the west; and 942:needs attention from an expert in mythology 53:Learn how and when to remove these messages 1825:Redfield, Robert & Villa Rojas, 1962. 1575: 1513: 1511: 1273:Civil officials include or have included: 253:. Please do not remove this message until 1569: 1455: 1127:International treaties and correspondence 684: 291:Learn how and when to remove this message 273:Learn how and when to remove this message 212:Learn how and when to remove this message 150:Learn how and when to remove this message 1729: 1637: 1625:Landa's Relatión de las Cosas de Yucatán 1623:Landa, Diego de; Tozzer, Alfred (1941). 1541: 1539: 1517: 790: 249:Relevant discussion may be found on the 175:This article includes a list of general 1843:. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 1822:, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 1706: 1700: 1612:. 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