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108 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23
Chiapilla. They went. They ate a lot of cattle there.
But they were Chamulans!
So then they went to Chiapa. They wanted to go
kill the Chiapanecs. They fought. They shot off
bullets. What good did it do? They didn't have good
weapons. All they had were flintlocks, spears,
staves—gewgaws, worthless.
So then, the governor heard about it. Quickly they
complained to Mexico City. Soldiers arrived. [The
Chamulans] hadn't heard. They went to Yaleb Taiv
[Where Frost Falls] to carry off two cows. The
rancher there used to have cattle.
Fifty soldiers went, just Chamulans, but soldiers.
Then they seized the cattle in Na Chij [Deer
House]. The cattle were lying there, they didn't
come to [the Chamulans'] land.
Who knows how the Chamulans heard. The Obregonists
came. They were in Tierra Blanca already.
The soldiers were piled up there now. The Chamulans
were in Zinacantan. One group was at the town
hall. But you can't imagine how many thousands.
Holy Mary! They wanted to start a war.
The magistrate of Zinacantan, then, complained to
the government. "The soldiers have left already.
They are about to arrive there. Wait a bit!" he was
told. The Chamulans were unconcerned. They
hadn't heard yet. The two cows were left at Na Chij,
but who knows how the [Chamulans] heard. [The
Chamulans] left. One bull, one brown cow—it was a
black bull—were left behind. They were left lying
there.
Now when [the Chamulans] arrived, then, they
arrived to report to the [others]. "The soldiers are
coming now, we'll die!" they said. "Eh, what sort of
soldiers are they? Hell, the filth of your mother's
cock!" they said. Quickly they loaded their guns and
readied their spears.
The soldiers came, then, just cavalrymen. They
didn't used to have the machines, the cars.
So then the Obregonist soldiers reached Choko7.
They reached Choko7 at the edge of Zinacantan.
Eh, then they heard! Quickly, who knows if it was
twenty bullets, went whistling towards them, right
off. Ooh, the Chamulans, sonofabitch! Some went by
Be Chij [Deer Path], some by Ya7am Ton, some on
the road to San Cristobal. Bu—t he—11, the Obregonists
chased them on horseback. But the shoo—
ting, sonofabitch! The spears were left lying on the
path. One group was at the town hall.
[The war] reached their homes since the Obregonist
soldiers went to Chamula. They circled this way.
They circled that way. The Bird's followers were
captured. The ones who were about to be killed,
they captured now. As soon as they turned around
Bweno, 7iday, chba ta Soktom 7un, sk'an chba
smil li jsoktome, ta xak' k'ok' ta xak' bala, k'usi bal 7o
7un, mu7nuk mu7nuk lek 7arma yu7un, k'usi batz'i
tuk' ta chimeni, lansa, nam-te7al, chucho, mu xtun.
7Iday, 7iya7i li govyernoe che7e, j-likel 7isk'an
parte k'al Mejiko, 7ital li soltaroe, muk' bu cha7i, ta
Yaleb Taive 7a stzak tal cha7-kot vakax, 7oy to 7ox
svakax yajval finka te yo7e.
Bweno, 7a li soltaroe, 7ibat sinkwenta naka
jchamu7 pero soltaro.
7Ora, 7istzak 7a li vakax 7une, ta Na Chij 7une, te
puch'i li vakaxe mu7yuk xtal ta slumal.
Bweno, jna7tik k'u cha7al 7iya7i li jchamu7 7une.
7Ital li 70vrekone, te xa ta Tyera Planka te xa busul
li soltaroe, 7a li jchamu7 7une te ta Tzinakanta te ta
kavilto jun grupo, pero mu xana7 jay-mil Maria
Santisima, yu7un tzk'an ssa7 pletu.
Bweno, 7a li preserente Tzinakantae che7e, 7iyak'
xa kwenta xchi7uk govyerno. "Lok'em xa li soltaroe,
te xa ta xk'ot, malao xa j-likel!" x7utat 7un. 7A li
jchamu7e che7e, jun yo7on muk' bu cha7i to 7ox,
7ikom i cha7-kot vakax ta Na Chije, pero jna7tik k'u
cha7al 7iya7i, 7ibat skomtzanojik te puch'ul 7ikom,
j-kot toro j-kot k'anal baka, jun 7ik'al toro.
Bweno, 76ra k'al 7ik'ote che7e, k'ot yalbe ya7i,
"Te xa xtal 7a li soltaro, chilajotik!" xi. "7Ee, k'u
soltaro, kere, yik'ubal yat 7ame7!" xi. J-likel xchap
tiro, j-likel xchap lansa.
Bweno, tal soltaro che7e, naka kavayero mu7yuk
to 7ox i makina skwenta 7a li karoe.
Bweno, 7iday, 7ista Choko7 li soltaroe li
7ovrekonista 7une, 7ista Choko7 ta ti7 Tzinakanta,
7ee, 7iya7i che7e, j-likel 7ijisbat jna7tik mi j-tob bala
ta 7ora, jii, jchamu7e, jijo la chingadas, jun ta Be
Chij, jun ta Ya7am Ton 7ibat, jun belel Jobel, pe—ro
kavro—n, 7a li 7Ovrekone ta ka7 tznutzvan pero jun
ba—la chingada, ti lansa te pak'ajtik ta be, kavilto
j-lom.
Bweno, k'ot ta sna 7une, komo 7ay ta Chamu7tik i
soltaroe 7Ovrekone, 7ijoyp'ij 7un, 7ijoyp'ij xi 7une,
7itzake li Pajaroe, 7a li much'u, much'u chmile
che7e, ja7 tzakvan xa 7un, 7ivalk'uj 7un, naka
xchepel ta majel tzsa7e ta j-mek, pero dos tres syento