Tecun Uman
Maya · mortal · postclassic · Recorded classification
The Popol Vuh was written down by K'iche' who remembered this. Twenty-six years separate Tecun Uman's death from the manuscript, and the book's insistence that the K'iche' lineages descend from four named men who carried three named gods out of Tulan is the argument of people who had just been told they were nobody. He is at the other end of this batch from Balam Quitze and belongs to the same document.
Domains
- military command
- resistance
Sources
- Tecun Uman, born c. 1499, is one of the last K'iche' rulers, who met the Spanish invasion with 8,400 soldiers and was killed by Pedro de Alvarado near Quetzaltenango in February 1524.: Reference treatments of Tecun Uman, the Kaqchikel annals' account and the campaign of 1524. (secondary)