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Resources
For Tecum Umam -- http://www.popolvuh.ufm.edu.gt/AkkerenTU.pdf
Destination: Ethnic group
Barth
Destination: K'iche'
Colonial Period
The K'iche' first made contact with the Spanish conquistadors in 1523, with the arrival of an expeditionary force led by Pedro de Alvarado.
Early Republican Period
Religion
Traditional Maya religious custom, or costumbre, is a syncretic conglomeration of pre-Columbian traditions and Catholicism. It combines devotion to the Catholic saints and celebrations of the Catholic festivals with traditional dances and elaborate ceremonies conducted at ceremonial sites that are scattered throughout the surrounding mountains.
Evangelical Protestantism has become increasingly strong since its arrival in the region in the 1970s.
Destination:Tecum Umam
Tecum Umam (or Tecun Uman) was a legendary figure of Guatemalan and K'iche' history.
Did he exist?
Tecum Umam's status as either a man or a myth is a topic of lengthy and ongoing discussion. Archival research has demonstrated with some degree of surety that the man celebrated as a national hero of Guatemala probably did not exist quite as he is presented in the legend above, but there is also strong evidence to suggest that this character was not simply invented.[1]
U b'i Tecum Umam - Tecum Umam's name
"Tecum Umam" was almost certainly not the proper name of the fallen K'iche' lord who Alvarado mentioned in his letter to Cortes. Ruud W. van Akkeren<ref name="Akkeren 2004"> provides several insights into this topic.
- ↑ Ruud W. van Akkeren. 2004. Tecum Umam: ¿Personaje Mítico o Histórico? Paper presented at Ciclo de Conferencias 2004, Museo Popul Vuh, Universidad Francisco Marroquín