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Title: The Books of Chilan Balam, the Prophetic and Historic Records of the Mayas of Yucatan

Author: Daniel G. Brinton

Release Date: March 12, 2010 [EBook #31610]

Language: English

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THE BOOKS OF CHILAN BALAM,

The Prophetic and Historic Records
of the Mayas of Yucatan.

By DANIEL G. BRINTON, M. D.

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF
PHILADELPHIA; MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL
SOCIETY; THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY;
DELEGUE OF THE INSTITUTION
ETHNOGRAPHIQUE,
ETC., ETC.

[Illustration]

EDWARD STERN & CO.,
PHILADELPHIA.

PREFATORY NOTE.

The substance of the present pamphlet was presented as an address to the
Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, at its meeting in
January, 1882, and was printed in the _Penn Monthly_, March, 1882. As
the subject is one quite new in the field of American archaeology and
linguistics, it is believed that a republication in the present form
will be welcomed by students of these branches.

THE BOOKS OF CHILAN BALAM.[5-*]

Civilization in ancient America rose to its highest level among the
Mayas of Yucatan. Not to speak of the architectural monuments which
still remain to attest this, we have the evidence of the earliest
missionaries to the fact that they alone, of all the natives of the New
World, possessed a lite