The Books of Chilam Balam Tradition
- Date of account
- Colonial period, mainly 17th–19th-century manuscript tradition
- Location
- Yucatán Peninsula
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Books of Chilam Balam are a dispersed tradition of Yucatec Maya manuscripts associated with towns such as Chumayel, Mani, Tizimín, and Kaua. They preserve heterogeneous materials including historical narratives, calendrical calculations, prophecy, healing, astrology-like lore, and Christian reinterpretation. This is a useful comparison lead because it demonstrates long-duration textual transmission rather than a single occult event. Manuscript dates, sources, authorship, and the extent to which passages preserve precolonial knowledge are disputed, making individual books and editions essential to verify.
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