lizana

Updated: May 7, 2025

Kinich-Kakmó after her death obtained the honors of the apotheosis; had temples raised to her memory, and was worshipped at Izamal up to the time of the Spanish conquest, according to Landa, Cogolludo and Lizana. Satisfied that I had found the tomb of a great warrior among the Mayas, I resolved to make an excavation, notwithstanding I had no tools or implements proper for such work.

Augustus Le Plongeon - Vestiges of the Mayas : or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate : Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between : the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa

To that temple they carried their dead and the sick. They called it Kabul, the working hand, and made there great offerings.” Father Lizana says the same: so we have two witnesses to the fact. Kab, in Maya means hand; and Bul is to play at hazard.

Augustus Le Plongeon - Vestiges of the Mayas : or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate : Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between : the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa

Several prophecies, purporting to have been made by their priests, concerning the preaching of the Gospel among the people of Mayab, have reached us, preserved in the works of Landa, Lizana, and Cogolludo.

Augustus Le Plongeon - Vestiges of the Mayas : or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate : Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between : the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa