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And then the sons remembered what had been said about the east. This is when they remembered the instructions of their fathers. The ancient things received from their fathers were not lost. The tribes gave them their wives, becoming their fathers-in-laws. Three of them said as they began to depart:
"We are going to the east, where our fathers came from," they said, then they followed their road. The three of them were these sons:
Cocaib son of Jaguar Quitze represented all the Cauecs.
Coacutec was the name of the son of Jaguar Night who represented solely the Greathouses.
Coahau was the name of the son of Mahucutah, representing the Lord Quiches.
So these are the ones who went across the sea. There were only three who went, but they had skill and knowledge. They were more than humans. They advised all their brothers, elder and younger who were left behind. They were glad to go:
"We are not dying, we are coming back," they said when they went clear across the sea.
And then they arrived in the east, to acquire lordship. Next comes the name of the lord with dominion of those in the east when the three sons arrived.

And they came before the Lord named Nacxit, great lord and sole judge over a populous domain.
He was the one who acted lordly, with his emblems, the signs of the Keeper of the Mat, and the Keeper of the Reception House mat was set forth.
And when the signs of splendor and lordship of the Keeper of the Mat and Keeper of the Reception House Mat were set forth, Nacxit gave the sons a complete set of the emblems of lordship.
Here are the names of the emblems:
Canopy, throne,
Bone flute, bird whistle,
Paint of powdered yellow stone.
Puma's paw, jaguar's paw.
Head and hoof of deer.
Bracelet of rattling snail shells.
Gourd of tobacco.
Nosepiece.
Parrot feathers, heron feathers.
The sons brought all these back. They brought back the writing about Tulan. They cried when they read them.
Then they went back to their citadel, named Hacauitz, all the Tams and Ilocs gathered there. all the tribes gather together and they were happy. When Cocaib, Coacutec, and Coahau came back, they resumed the lordship over the tribes. The Rabinals, the Cakchiquels, and those of the BirdHouse were happy. Now the lords could display their emblems thereby showing their lordship and greatness as they could never before do.
All this occurred when they were at Hacauitz. The only ones with them came from the east. They spent a long time there on that mountain. Now they were all numerous.
And the wives of Jaguar Quitze, Jaguar Night, and Mahucutah died there. Then they came away, they left their mountain place behind. They sought another mountain where they could settle. They settled countless mountains. giving them names.
Our first mothers and our first fathers multiplied and gained strength at those places, according to what the people of ancient times said when they were told about the abandonment of their first citadel, Hacauitz.
And then they came to a place where founded a citadel named Thorny Place. They spent a long time there in that one citadel. They had daughters and sons while they were there. There were actually four mountains, but there came to be a single name for the whole town. Their daughters and sons got married. They gave them away. They accepted favors and gifts as sufficient payment for their daughters. They did only what was good.
They looked at each division of the citadel. Thorny Place: Dry Place, Bark House Culba, Cauinal are the names of the mountains where they stayed.
This is when they looked out over the mountains of their citadel. They were seeking a further mountain, since all the divisions had become more numerous. But those who had brought lordship from the east had died by now; they had become old in the process of going from one citadel to another. But their faces did not die; they were passed on.
They went through a great deal of pain and affliction,; it was a long time before the grandfathers and fathers found their citadel. Here is the name of the citadel where they arrived.

And Bearded Place is the name of the mountain of their citadel. They stayed there and they settled down there.
And they tested their metal there, their fiery splendor. They ground their gypsum, plaster, in the fourth generation of lords. It was said that Conache ruled when Nine Deer was the Lord Minister. The lords named Cotuha and Iztayul reigned as Keeper of the Mat and Keeper of the Reception House Mat. They reigned there at Bearded Place. It was through their works that it became an excellent citadel.
The number of great houses only reached three, there at Bearded Place. There were not yet a score and four great houses, but only three of them.
Just one Cauec great house.
One house for the Greathouses.
And finally, just one for the Lord Quiches.
The three were housed in just two buildings, one in each of the two divisions of the citadel.
This is the way it was when they were at Bearded Place:
They were of just one mind: there was no evil for them, nor were there difficulties.
Their reign was all in calm, there were no quarrels between them, and no disturbances.
Their hearts were filled with a steady light, no stupidity no envy inhabited what they did.
Their splendor was modest, they caused no amazement nor had they grown overly great.
They tested themselves. They excelled in the Shield Dance, there at Bearded Place. They did it as a sign of their sovereignty. It was a sign of their fiery splendor and a sign of their greatness.
When it was seen by the Ilocs, the Ilocs began to foment war. It was their desire that the Lord Cotuha be murdered, and that the other lords be allied with them. It was the Lord Iztayul they wanted to persuade. The Ilocs wanted him as their accomplice in committing murder. But their jealous plotting behind the back of the Lord Cotuha failed to work out. They just wanted it over with but the lord was not killed by the Ilocs on their first try.
Such were the roots of disturbances, of tumult and war. First they invaded the citadel, the killers were on the move. What they wanted was to obliterate the very identity of the Quiches. Only then, they thought, could they alone have sovereignty and it was for this alone that they came to kill. They were capture and they were made prisoners. Not many of them ever got their freedom again.
Then began the cutting of flesh. The cut the Ilocs open before the gods. This was in payment for their wrongs against Lord Cotuha. And many others went into bondage; they were made into slaves and serfs. They had simply given themselves up in defeat by fomenting war against the lord and against the canyon and citadel. What their hearts had desired was the destruction and disintegration of the very identity of the Quiche lord, but it did not come to pass.
In this way were people cut open before the gods, the shields of war were made then; it was the very beginning of the fortification of the citadel at Bearded Place. The root of fiery splendor was implanted there and because of it the reign of the Quiche lords was truly great. They were lords of singular genius. There was nothing to humble them; nothing happened to make fools of them or to ruin the greatness of their reign, which took root there at Bearded Place.
The penance done for the gods increase there, striking terror again, and all the tribes were terrified, small tribes and great tribes. They witnessed the arrival of people captured in war, who were cut open and killed for the splendor and majesty of Lord Cotuha and Lord Iztayul, along with the Greathouses and the Lord Quiches. There were only three branches of kin in the citadel.
And it was also there that they began feasting and drinking over the blossoming of their daughters. This was the way those who were called the "Three Great Houses" stayed together. They drank their drinks there and ate their corn there, they payment for their sisters, payment for their daughters. There was only happiness in their hearts when they did it. They ate, they feasted inside the palaces.
"This is just our way of being thankful and grateful that we have good news and good tidings. It is the sign of our agreements about the daughters and sons born to our women," they said.
Epithets were bestowed there, and the lineages, the allied tribes, the principalities gave themselves names there.
"We are intermarried: we Cauecs, we Greathouses, and we Lord Quiches," said those of the three lineages and the three great houses. They spent a long time there at Bearded Place, and then they sought and saw another citadel. They left Bearded Place behind.
And then they got up and came to the citadel of Rotten Cane, as the name is spoken by the Quiches. The Lords Cotuha and Plumed Serpent came along, together with all the other lords. there had been fives changes and five generations of people since the origin of light, the origin of continuity, the origin of life and of humankind.
They built many house there.
And they also built houses for the gods, putting these in the center of the highest part of the citadel. They came and they stayed.
This was the origin of their separation, when they quarreled among themselves, disturbing the bones and skulls of the dead. Then they broke into nine lineages, putting an end to quarrels over sisters and daughters. When the planning of the lordships was done, the result was a score and four great houses.
It was a long time ago when they all came up onto their citadel of Rotten Cane. That was the citadel blessed by the lord bishop after it had been abandoned.
They achieved glory there. Their marvelous seats and cushions were arranged; the varieties of splendor were sorted out for each one of the lords of the nine lineages. One by one they took their places:
The nine lords of the Cauecs.
The nine lords of the Greathouses.
The four lords of the Lord Quiches.
The two lords of the Zaquics.
They became numerous. Those who were in the following of a given lord were also numerous but the lord came first, and the head of his vassals. There were masses, masses of lineages for each of the lords. We shall name the titles of the lords one by one, for each of the great houses.

And here are the titles of the lords who led the Cauecs, first in rank, to lesser:
Keeper of the mat,
Keeper of the Reception House Mat.
Keeper of Tohil.
Keeper of the Plumed Serpent.
Great Toastmaster of the Cauecs.
Councilor of the stores.
Lolmet Quehnay.
Councilor of the Ball Court.
Mother of the Reception House.
So these are the lords who led the Cauecs, nine lords with their palaces ranged around, one for each of them.
And now these are the lords who led the Greathouses starting with the first lord:
Lord Minister
Lord Crier to the People
Minister of the Reception House
Great Reception House
Mother of the Reception House
Great Toastmaster of the Greathouses.
Lord Auilix
Yocolatam, or Edge of the Zaclatol Mat.
Great Lolmet Yeoltux.
And now these are the lord Quiches. Here are the titles of the lords:
Crier to the People.
Lord Lolmet
Lord Great Toastmaster of the Lord Quiches
Lord Hacauitz
Four lords led the Lord Quiches, with their palaces ranged around.
Aand there are also two lineages of Zaquic Lords:
Lord Corntassel House.
Minister for the Zaquics.
There was one palace for these two lords.

Then splendor and majesty grew among the Quiche. The greatness and weight of the Quiche reached its full splendor and majesty with the surfacing and plastering of the canyon and citadel. The tribes came, whether small or great and whatever the titles of their lords, adding to the greatness of the Quiche. As splendor and majesty grew, so grew the houses of gods and the houses of lords.
But the lords could not have accomplished it, they could not have done the work of building their houses or houses of gods, were it not for the fact that their vassals had become numerous. They neither had to lure them, nor did they kidnap them or take them away by force, because each one of them rightfully belonged to the lords. And the elder and younger brothers of the lords also became populous.
Each lord led a crowded life, crowded with petitions. The lords were truly valued and truly had great respect. The birthdays of the lords were made great and held high by their vassals. Those who lived in the canyons and those who lived in the citadels multiplied then. Even so they would not have been numerous, had not all the tribes arrived to give themselves up.
And when war befell their canyons and citadels, it was by means of their genius that the Lord Plumed Serpent and Lord Cotuha blazed with power. Plumed Serpent became a true lord of genius:
On one occasion he would climb up to the sky; on another he would go down the road to Xibalba.
One another occasion he would be serpentine, becoming an actual serpent.
On yet another occasion he would make himself quiline, and one another feline; he would become like an actual eagle or a jaguar in his appearance.
On another occasion it would be pool of blood; he would become nothing but a pool of blood.
Truly his being was that of a lord of genius. All the other lords were fearful before him. The news spread; all the tribal lords heard about the existence of this lord of genius.
And this was the beginning and growth of the Quiche, when the Lord Plumed Serpent made the signs of greatness. His face was not forgotten by his grandsons and his sons. He did not do these things just so there would be one single lord, but they had the effect of humbling all the tribes when he did them. It was just his way of revealing himself, but because of it he became the sole head of the tribes.
This lord of genius named Plumed Serpent was in the fourth generation of lords; he was both Keeper of the Mat and Keeper of the Reception House Mat.
And so he left signs and sayings for the next generation. The achieved splendor and majesty, and they too begot sons, making the sons still more populous. Tepepul and Iztayul were begotten; they merely served out their reign, becoming the fifth generation of lords. They begot another generation of lords.

And here are the names of the sixth generation of lords. There were two great lords: fiery. Quicab was the name of one lord; Cauizimah was the name of the other.
And Quicab and Cauizimah did a great deal in their turn. They added to the greatness of the Quiche because they truly had genius. They crushed and they shattered the canyons and citadels of the tribes, small and great, even the ones that had citadels among them in ancient times nearby:
There was a mountain place of the Cakchiquels called Above the Nettles today.
And also a mountain place of the Rabinals, Place of Spilt Water.
The mountain of the Coaques, Plaster House.
Then a citadel of the White Earth, Above the Hot Springs.
Under Ten, Before the Building, and Willow Tree
They all hated Quicab. They made war, but in fact they were brought down, they were shattered, these canyons, these citadels of the Rabinals, Cakchiquels, White Earth. All the tribes went down on their faces, or flat on their backs. The warriors of Quicab kept up the killing for a long time, until there were only one or two groups, from among all the enemies, who hadn't brought tribute. Their citadels fell and they brought tribute to Quicab and Cauizimah. Their lineages came to be bled, shot full of arrows at the stake. Their day came to nothing, their heritage came to nothing.
Projectiles alone were the means for breaking the citadels. All at once the earth itself would crack open; it was as if a lightning bolts had shattered the stones. In fear, the members of one tribe after another went before the gum tree, carrying in their hands the signs of the citadels, with the result that a mountain of stones is there today. Only a few of these are not cut stones; the rest look as though they had been split with an axe. The result is there on the flat named Petatayub; it is obvious to this day. Everyone who passes by can see it as a sign of the manhood of Quicab. He could not be killed, nor could he be conquered. He was truly a man, and all the tribes brought tribute.
And then all the lords made plans; they moved to cordon off the canyons and citadels, the fallen citadels of all the tribes.

And there began their song named "The Blame Is Ours". They sang out the lament of their very hearts and guts. In their song they say:
"Alas!
Were were lost at Tulan!
We shattered ourselves!
We left our elder brothers behind!
Our younger brother!
Where did they see the sun? Where must they be staying,
Now that the dawn has come?"
They were speaking of the penitents and the sacrificers who were the Yaqui people.
"Even though Tohil is his name, he is the same god of the Yaqui people, whose god is named Yolcuat and Quitzalcuat. When we divided, there at Tulan, at Zuyua, they left with us, and they shared our identity when we came away." they said to themselves remembering their faraway brothers, elder and younger, the Yaqui people whose dawn was there in the place named Mexico today.
And again there were also the Fishkeeper people. They stayed there in the east; Sovereign Oloman is their name.
"We left them behind." It was a great weight on their hearts up there on Hacauitz. The Tams and Ilocs did likewise except that they were in the forest. The Tam Tribe is the name of the place where the sun dawned for the penitents and sacrificers of the Tams, with their god, named likewise Tohil. There was just one name for the god in all the three divisions of the Quiche people.
Again, the name of the god of the Rabinals was nearly the same, "One Toh" is the way the name of the god of the Rabinals is spoken. They say it that way, but it is meant to be in agreement with the Quiches and their language.
And the language has differentiated in the case of the Cakchiquels, since their god has a different name when they came away from Tulan Zuyua. Calm Snake is the name of the god of the Bat House, and they speak a different language today. Along with their god, the lineages took their names; they are called Keeper of the Bat Mat and Keeper of the Dancer Mat. Like their god, their language was differentiated on account of a stone. when they came from Tulan in the darkness. All the tribes were sown and came to light in unity, and each division was allocated a name for its god.
And now we shall tell about their stay and their sojourn there on the mountain. The four were together, the ones named Jaguar Quitze, Jaguar Night, Mahucutah, and True Jaguar Their hearts cried out to Tohil, Auilix and Hacauitz, who were now amid the bromelias and hanging mosses.

After that came the sentries, to watch for the makers of war. Now lookout lineages were established to occupy the conquered mountains:
"Otherewise the tribes would return to inhabit their citadels," all the lords say when they had all shared their thoughts. Then the assignments were given out:
"Let them be like a palisade to us, and like doubles for our own lineages, and like a stockade, a fortress to us. Let them now become our anger, our manliness," said all the lords. The assignments were given to each of the lineages that were to provide opposition to the makers of war.
And then they were notified, and then they went to their posts, occupying the mountains places of the tribes:
"Go, because these are now our mountains. Do not be afraid. The moment there are makers of war again, coming back among you as your murderers, send for us to come and kill them," Quicab and the Minister and the Crier to the People told them, notifying all of them.
Then they went off, those who are called the Point of the Arrow, Angle of the Bowstring. Their grandfathers and fathers split up then; they were on each of the mountains. They went just as guards, of the mountains, and as arrowhead and bowstring guards, and as guards against the makers of war as well. None of them had been there at the dawning nor did any of them have their own god; they just blocked the way to the citadel. They all went out:
Keepers of Above the Nettles, Keepers of Chulimal, White River, Deer Dance Plazas, Plank Place, Eighteen.
Also, Keepers of Earthquake, Meteor, Hunahpu Place.
And Keepers of Spilt Water, Keepers of Cut Rock, Keepers of Plaster House, Keepers of Ziya House, Keepers of Hot Springs, Keepers of Under Ten, of the plains, of the mountains.
The war sentries, the guardians of the land, went out, they went on behalf of Quicab and Cauizimah, Keeper of the Mat and Keeper of the Reception House Mat, and on behalf of the Minister and the Crier to the People. There were four lords who posted messengers and sentries against the makers of war:
Quicab and Cauizimah are the names of the two lords who led the Cauecs.
Quema is the name of the lord who led the Greathouses.
And Armadillo Dung is the name of the lord who led the Lord Quiches.
So these are the names of the lords who posted messengers and couriers. Their own vassals went to the mountains, to each one of the mountains, and as soon as they had gone, spoils kep0t coming back, and prisoners of war kept coming back to Quicab and Cauizimah, to the Minister and the Crier to the People. The Points of the Arrows and Angles of the Bowstrings made war. They took spoils and prisoners again. There came to be heroes again, among those who were sentries. They were given seats and honored; they were generously remembered by the lords when they came to turn over all their spoils and their prisoners.
After that when it comes to the ennobling of the lookout lineages, we will induct only those who are first in rank, so said the Keeper of the Mat.
"The nobility of the Keeper of the Mat, which is mine and that which yours Lord Minister should enter into this. Ministers will be ennobled." And all the lords spoke as they gathered their thoughts. The Tams and Ilocs did just the same; the three divisions of the Quiche were in concord when they carried out the investiture. They titled those of the first rank among their vassals.
In this way the decision was reached. But they were not inducted at Quiche but at Under the Twine, Under the Cord is where they were inducted, where they entered into nobility. It was done there in Chulimal.
And here are their titles, their honors, and their marks: a score of Ministers and a score of Keepers of the Mat were created by the Keeper of the Mat, and Keeper of the Reception House Mat and by the Minister and the Crier to the People.
All of these entered the nobility: Ministers, Keepers of the Mat, eleven Great Toastmaster, Minister for the Lords, Minister for the Zaquics, Military Minister, Military Keeper of the Mat, Military Walls, and Military. Corners are the titles that came in when the soldiers were titled and named to their seats, their cushions.
These were the first ranking vassals, watchers and listeners for the Quiche people: Points of the Arrows, Angles of the Bowstrings, and a palisade, an enclosure, a wall, a fortress around Quiche.
And the Tams and Ilocs did the same thing; they inducted and titled the first ranking vassals for each mountain.
So this was the origin of the noble Ministers and Keepers of the Mat that exist for each of the mountains today. The sequence was such that they came after the Keeper of the Mat, the Keeper of the Reception House Mat, and later than the Minister and Crier to the People.

And now we shall name the names of the houses of the gods, although the houses have the same names as the gods:
Great Monument of Tohil is the building that housed Tohil of the Cauecs.
Auilix, next, is the name of the building that housed Auilix of the Greathouses.
Hacauitz is the name of the building that housed the god of the Lord Quiches.
Corntassel, whose house of sacrifice can still be seen, is the name of another great monument.
These were the locations of the stones whose days were kept by the Quiche lords. Their days were also kept by all the tribes. When the tribes burned offerings, they came before Tohil first.
After that, they greeted the Keeper of the Mat and Keeper of the Reception House Mat next, then they handed over their quetzal feathers and their tribute to the lords, these same lords.
And so they nurtured and provided for the Keeper of the Mat and Keeper of the Reception House Mat, who had been victorious over the citadels.
They were great lords, they were people of genius. Plumed Serpent and Cotuha were lords of genius., and Quicab and Cauizimah were lords of genius. They knew whether war would occur; everything they saw was clear to them. Whether there would be death or whether there would be famine, or whether quarrels would occur, they knew it for certain, since there was a place to see it there was a book. Council Book was their name for it.
But it was not only in this way that they were lords. They were great in their own selves and observed great fast. As a way of cherishing their buildings and cherishing their lordship, they fasted for long periods, they did penance before their gods.
And here is their way of fasting:
For nine score days they would fast, and for nine they would do penance and burn offerings.
Thirteen score was another of their fasts, and for thirteen they would do penance and burn offerings before Tohil and their other gods. They would only eat zapotes, matasanos, jocote; there was nothing made of corn for their meals.
Even if they did penance for seventeen score, then for seventeen they fasted, they did not eat. They achieved truly great abstinence.
This was a sign that they had the being of true lords. And there were not any women with them when they slept; they kept themselves apart when they fasted. They just stayed in the houses of the gods each day. All they did was keep the days burn offerings and do penance. They were there whether it was dark or dawn; they just cried their hearts and their guts out when they asked for light and for life of their vassals, and their domain. They lifted their faces to the sky, and here is their prayer before the gods, when they made their requests.

This is the cry of their hearts:
"Wait! On this blessed day,
thou Hurricane, thou Heart of the Sky-Earth,
thou giver of ripeness and freshness,
and thou giver of daughters and sons,
spread they stain, spill they drops,
of green and yellow;
give life and beginning,
to those I bear and beget,
that they might multiply and grow.
nuturing and providing for thee,
calling to thee along the roads and paths,
on rivers, in canyons,
beneath the trees and bushes;
give them their daughters and sons.

"May there be no blame, obstacle, want or misery;
let no deceiver come behind or before them,
may they neither be snared nor wounded,
nor seduced, nor burned,
no diverted below the road nor above it;
may they neither fall over backward nor stumble;
keep them on the Green Road, the Green Path.

"May there be no blame or barrier for them,
through any secrets or sorcery of theirs;
may thy nurturers and providers be good
before they mouth and thy face
thou, Heart of Sky; thou Heart of Earth;
thou, Bundle of Flames;
and thou, Tohil, Auilix, Hacauitz,
under the sky, on the earth,
the four sides, the four corners;
may there be only light, only continuity within,
before they mouth and they face, thou god."
So it was with the lords when they fasted during nine score, thirteen score , or seventeen score days; their days of fasting were many. They cried their hearts out over their vassals and over all their wives and children. Each and every lord did service, as a way of cherishing the light of life and of cherishing lordship.
Such were the lordships of the Keeper of the Mat, Keeper of the Reception House Mat, Minister and Crier to the People. They went into fasting two by two, taking turns at carrying the tribes and all the Quiche people on their shoulders.
At its root the word came from just one place, and the root of nurturing and providing was the same as the root of the word. The Tams and Ilocs did likewise, along with the Rabinals, Cakchiquels, those of the BirdHouse, Sweatbath House, Talk House. They came away in unity, having heard there at Quiche what all of them should do.
It was not merely that they became lords, it was not just that they gathered in gifts from nurturers and providers who merely made food and drink from them. Nor did they wantonly falsify or steal their lordship, their splendor their majesty. And it wasn't merely that they crushed the canyons and citadels of the tribes, whether small or great, but that the tribes paid a great price:
There came turquoise, there came metal.
And there came green and red feather work, the tribute of all the tribes. It came to the lords of genius Plumed Serpent and Cotuha and to Quicab and Cauizimah as well, to the Keeper of the Mat, Keeper of the Reception House Mat, Minister, and Crier to the People.
What they did was no small feat, and the tribes they conquered were not few in number. The tribute of Quiche came from many tribal divisions.
And the lords had undergone pain and withstood it; their rise to splendor had not been sudden. Actually it was Plumed Serpent who was the root of the greatness of the lordship.
Such was the beginning of the rise and growth of Quiche.
And now we shall list the generations of lords, and we shall also name the names of all these lords.

And here are the generations the sequences of lordships, so that all of them will be clear.
Jaguar Quitze, Jaguar Night, Mahucutah, and True Jaguar were our first grandfathers, our first fathers when the sun appeared, when the moon, when the stars appeared.
And here are the generations, the sequences, of lordships. We shall begin from here, at their very root. The lords will come up two by two, as each generation of lords enters and succeeds the previous grandfathers and lords of the citadel, going on through each and every one of the lords, each of the faces of each one of the lords.

And here are the faces of the Quiche Lords:"
Jaguar Quitze, origin of the Cauecs.
Cocauib, in the second generation after Jaguar Quitze.
Jaguar Conache, who began the office of Keeper of the Mat was in the third generation.
Cotuha and Iztayul, in the third generation.
Plumed Serpent and Cotuha, at the root of the lords of genius, were in the fifth generation.
Tepepul and Iztayul next, sixth in the sequence.
Quicab and Cauizimah in the seventh change of lordship.
Tepepul and Xtayaub, in the eighth generation.
Tecum and Tepepul in the ninth generation.
Eight Cords with Quicab in the tenth generation of lords.
Seven Though and Cauatepech next, eleventh in the sequence of lords.
Three Deer and Nine Dog, in the twelfth generation of lords. And they were ruling when Tonatiuh arrived. They were hanged by the Castilian people.
Tecum and Tepepul were tributary to the Castilian people. They had already been begotten as the thirteenth generation of lords.
Don Juan de Rojas and Don Juan Cortes in the fourteenth generation of lords. They are the sons of Tecum and Tepepul.
So these are the generations, the sequences of lordships for the Keeper of the Mat and Keeper of the Reception House Mat, the lords who have led the Cauecs of Quiche. Next we shall name the lineages.

And here are the great houses of each one of the lords in the following of the Keeper of the Mat and Keeper of the Reception House Mat. These are the names of the nine lineages of the Cauecs, nine great houses. Here are the titles of the rulers of each one of the great houses.
Lord Keeper of the Mat, with one great house. Granary is the name of the palace.
Lord Keeper of the Reception House Mat. Bird House is the name of his palace.
Great Toastmaster of the Cauecs, with one great house.
Lord Keeper of Tohil, with one great house.
Councilor of the Stores, with one great house.
Lolmet Quehnay, with one great house.
Councilor of the Ball Court, Xcuxeba, with one great house.
Sovereign Yaqui, with one great house.
So there are the nine lineages of the Cauecs. Many vassals are counted in the following of these nine great houses.

And here are those of the Greathouses, with nine more great houses. First we shall name the genealogy of the lordship. It began, from just one root, at the origin of the root of the day and the light:
Jaguar Night, first grandfather and father.
Coacul and Coacutec, in the second generation.
Cochahuh and Cotzibaha in the third generation.
Nine Deer next, in the fourth generation.
Cotuha in the fifth generation of lords.
And Monkey House next, in the sixth generation.
And Iztayul, in the seventh generation of lords.
Cotuha then, eighth in the sequence of lordships.
Nine Deer, ninth in the sequence.
Quema, as the next one was called, in the tenth generation.
Lord Cotuha, in the eleventh generation.
Don Critobal, as he was called, became lord in the presence of the Castilian people.
Don Pedro de Robles is Lord Minister today.
And these are all the lords who come in the following of the Lord Minister. Now we shall give the title of the ruler of each one of the great houses:
Lord Minister, the first ranking lord at the head of the Greathouses with one great house:
Lord Crier to the People with one great house.
Lord Minister of the Reception House, with one great house.
Great Reception House with one great house.
Lord Auilix, with one great house.
Yacolatam with one great house.
So these are the great houses at the head of the Greathouses; these are the names of the nine lineages of the Greathouses, as they are called. There are many branch lineages in the following of each one of these lords. We have named only the first ranking titles.



And now these are for the Lord Quiches. Here are their grandfathers and fathers: Mahucutah, the first person.
Coahau is the name of the lord of the second generation.
Red Banner.
Cocozom,
Comahcun,
Seven Cane,
Cocamel,
Coyabacoh,
Person of Bam.
These are the lords at the head of the Lord Quiches; these are their generations and sequences.

And here are the lords within the palaces, with just four great house:
Crier to the People for the Lords is the title of the first lord, with one great house.
Lolmet of the Lords, the second lord, with one great house.
Great Toastmaster of the Lords, the third lord, with one great house.
And Hacauitz, the fourth lord, with one great house.
And so these are the four great houses at the head of the Lord Quiches.

And there are three great Toastmasters in all. They are like fathers to all the Quiche lords. They come together in unity, these three Toastmasters. They are givers of birth, they are Mothers of the Word, they are Fathers of the Word, great in being few, these three Toastmasters:
Great Toastmaster for the Cauecs.
Great Toastmaster for the Greathouses next,
Great Toastmaster Lord for the Lord Quiches, third of the Great Toastmasters.
And so there are three Toastmasters, one representing each of these lineages.

This is enough about the being of Quiche given that there is no longer a place to see it. The original book and ancient writing owned by the lords is now lost, but even so everything has been written here concerning Quiche, which is now named Santa Cruz.

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