Chilam Balam
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The Chilam Balam (literally Secrets of the Soothsayers) is a collection of books written in the Maya language in Mexico in the 17th and 18th centuries. They purport to contain the secrets of the Maya civilization and are a major source for contemporary knowledge of Maya religion, history, folklore, medicine, and astronomy. It is supposed that there were once many more books in the Chilam Balam collection, though only a handful, named for the towns in which they were written, have survived until today.