Wednesday, December 13, 2017
The Monkeys of the World
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny:
The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel.
Translated and Annotated by
Munro S. Edmonson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986), p. 76 (lines 611-618, from The Sermon of Xopan Nahuat):
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Crazy are their days;
Crazy are the nights
Of the monkeys of the world.
Their necks are bent,
Their faces wrinkled, 615
Their mouths slack
In the lordship of the lands,
O fathers.