The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan And Northern British Honduras
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* * * "Some of the women and children were separated from the rest, amongst whom was a young Spanish girl well known in high circles. A procession was then formed and marched ofl to the east gate; first came a strong body of troops, then alternately in Indian file, a male prisoner and his executioner, who drove nim on with his machete, holding him by a rope; next came the women, 35 in nimiber, driven and held in a Digitized by Google 42 BUHEAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 64 The Indians here un...der consideration occupy an intermediate position, bet)f een the civihzed Maya of northern Yucatan, who have lost nearly all tradition and traces of their former civilization, and the Lacandones of the Usumasintla Valley, who have probably changed but little in their customs and reUgious observances since the conquest. Nominally they are Christians, but the longer one Uves among them, and the better one gets to know them, the more he reahzes that their Christianity is to a great extent merely a thin veneer, and that fundamentally their rehgious conceptions and even their ritual and ceremonies are survivals — degenerate, much changed, and with most of their significance lost — ^but still survivals of those of their ancestors of pre-Columbian days.
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* * * "Some of the women and children were separated from the rest, amongst whom was a young Spanish girl well known in high circles. A procession was then formed and marched ofl to the east gate; first came a strong body of troops, then alternately in Indian file, a male prisoner and his executioner, who drove nim on with his machete, holding him by a rope; next came the women, 35 in nimiber, driven and held in a Digitized by Google 42 BUHEAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 64 The Indians here un...der consideration occupy an intermediate position, bet)f een the civihzed Maya of northern Yucatan, who have lost nearly all tradition and traces of their former civilization, and the Lacandones of the Usumasintla Valley, who have probably changed but little in their customs and reUgious observances since the conquest. Nominally they are Christians, but the longer one Uves among them, and the better one gets to know them, the more he reahzes that their Christianity is to a great extent merely a thin veneer, and that fundamentally their rehgious conceptions and even their ritual and ceremonies are survivals — degenerate, much changed, and with most of their significance lost — ^but still survivals of those of their ancestors of pre-Columbian days.
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