The Kaqchikeru Chronicles

...The Popol Vuh begins with a creation myth of all things, and then goes on to the creation of the four ancestors of the Quiche clan, and the migration and conquests of their descendants from the legendary land of the Seven Caves and Turan, which is estimated to date back to the 7th century, intertwined with the mythical traditions of cultural heroes linked to religious rituals and beliefs such as human sacrifice. Along with the Book of Chilam-Balam of the Yucatan Peninsula, it is a source that can provide information on the cosmology of the Classic Maya, and together with the Kaqchikel Chronicles, it is an important original language historical source that elucidates the ethnic history and social structure of the Maya peoples who migrated to the Guatemalan highlands during the Postclassic period, and is also translated into Japanese. [Kobayashi Chihiro]...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "Kakchikel Chronicles" are listed below.

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…ポポル･ブフは天地万物の創造神話に始まり，キチェー一族の4始祖創造から，7世紀にさかのぼると推定される〈七つの洞穴〉〈トゥラン〉という伝説上の地からの子孫たちの移動や征服活動などが，人身供犠など宗教儀礼や信仰と結びついた文化英雄の神話的伝承と絡みあって展開する。ユカタン半島の《チラム･バラムの書》と並び古典期マヤ以来の宇宙観を知りうる資料であり，《カクチケル年代記》とともに後古典期にグアテマラ高地に移住してきたマヤ諸族の民族史や社会構成を解明する重要な原地語史料であり，邦訳もある。【小林 致広】。…

※「《カクチケル年代記》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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