"Memorial de Sololá" — the Cakchiquel Maya account of their own origin, descent from the Toltecs, founding of the kingdom of Iximché, and the catastrophic Spanish Conquest. A native voice on the same events as the Popol Vuh.
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Tradition
Cakchiquel (Kaqchikel) Maya. Composed shortly after the Conquest (mid-16th century) by descendants of the ruling lineage; preserved in a single manuscript discovered at the convent of San Francisco in 1844. Translated by Daniel G. Brinton (1885).
Translation
Daniel G. Brinton, *The Annals of the Cakchiquels: The Original Text, with a Translation, Notes and Introduction* (Library of Aboriginal American Literature, vol. VI), Philadelphia, 1885. Public domain.
License
Public domain (pre-1929 English translation). Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.