150 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. VI. 
the tribute which the tribute demanding Pop asked. Then he depopu- 
lated the commune of Caichxik when the town rebelled. 
“The god Cakukel; the god Hunahpu; the god Puch-tunox ; the 
god Hurakan. 
“Two thrones Hurakan destroys, Puch-tunox destroys, the very 
united, one ruler. 
“ Cakulel destroyed the rebels. Puch-tunox destroyed the refusers 
of tribute. Pak destroyed . 
“Then the Chunbezah, seueeere killed, when the Chunthan 
demanded the tribute of the one king, four hundred rebelling against 
tribute, and four hundred rebellious warriors taken prisoners by the 
Chunbezah of the city of Palenque. 
“ A word, making manifest the murder of the Hunich. 
“ Cocyoéza, in front of the centre of the city, killed, for speech 
refusing tribute; when the army revolted, he killed the quarrelsome 
revolters. 
“Oxlahun-Pek, when he killed the revolters against tribute in front 
of the centre of the city, telling the army to rebel, in the (his) forty- 
eighth year. 
“The army at one time made four hundred and two (or, twice four 
hundred) prisoners on account of tribute. 
“ At one time Cocyoéza divided the abdomens of the rebels. 
“They rebelled against the king’s tribute, on account of dividing 
secession.” 
Such is the record of the Palenque Tablet, the story of eight hundred 
victims immolated at the shrines of the Bird-god Vuch, and his three 
companion deities, for rebelling against the exactions of two cruel 
tyrants, Cocyoéza, king of Oaxaca, and Oxlahun-Pek, king of the 
Cachiquels, and the boastful usurper of the Quiche royal dignity, 
Ahpop of the House of Cawek. The story is comparatively modern, 
but, nevertheless, full of interest. 
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