I look up random Aggie things...
today it was to see if I could find any more insight to the meaning of "Hullaballoo Canek Canek"
and I came across this new one:
...something tells me if there is any truth to this, there might have been a lot of people yelling before chants of "CANEK! CANEK!" going into battle... but how did something from the Caste War make it into our War Hymn twenty years later?
today it was to see if I could find any more insight to the meaning of "Hullaballoo Canek Canek"
and I came across this new one:
quote:
The Mayan revolutionary Jacinto Canek took his name from the last independent Mayan ruler, and because of him the name was also used as a rallying cry by Mayas in the 19th century Caste War between Mayas and Spanish.
...something tells me if there is any truth to this, there might have been a lot of people yelling before chants of "CANEK! CANEK!" going into battle... but how did something from the Caste War make it into our War Hymn twenty years later?
