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condition clearly announced by the chroniclers was the obligation 
imposed upon Cocyoéza to accept as his wife a princess of the royal 
family of Tenochtitlan : it would be hard to understand the persistence 
of Ahuitzotl on the execution of this article, did not subsequent 
events in history sufficiently reveal his perfidious designs in connection 
therewith." 
Brasseur gives a romantic account of the meeting of Cocyoéza and 
Coyolicatzin, the sister of Montezuma, whom the Zapotecs afterwards 
called Pelaxilla. They were married, and at once the treachery of 
Ahuitzotl appeared in his attempts to induce his niece to put her royal 
spouse to death. The queen remained true to her husband, and the 
treacherous Mexican was compelled to surrender all hopes of becoming 
ruler over the Zapotecs of Oaxaca. The son of Cocyoéza and Pelaxilla 
was Cocyopi, who was on the throne of Oaxaca at the time of the 
arrival of the Spaniards, who baptized him with the name of Don Juan 
Cortez. Cocyoéza was still alive when the Spaniards came, and, in his 
inveterate hatred of Mexico, which increased with the weight of years, 
counselled his son to become the friend of its new and powerful enemy. 
Brasseur says nothing of the alliance between the Cachiquel rulers and 
those of the Zapotec kingdom. The insufficiency of native documents, 
however, adequately accounts for this omission.’ 
The Palenque inscription states that the House of Cawek, or the 
Quiche kingdom, made Canich, the ancestor of Nohpat, Holpop or 
governor of the city of Uxmal, the chief city of Yucatan. Conache is 
mentioned by Brasseur’s authorities as one of the earliest kings of the 
House of Cawek, but nothing is said of his connection with any part of 
Yucatan. The last genuine king of Uxmal was Nohpat, but his story 
is so fullof the mysterious and romantic as to have led many students of 
Central American tradition to doubt even the existence of such a ~ 
personage. According to Brasseur’s account, he appears upon the scene 
alone, without predecessor, without legitimate successor. His court at 
Uxmal was one of great splendour, his subjects were obedient, his 
neighbours friendly. Nohpat himself was pious, virtuous, and benevo- 
lent ; but a prophecy concerning the downfall of his kingdom weighed 
on his mind and embittered his life. An aged woman brought up her 
grandson, the hope of her declining years, and taught him wonderful 
secrets, giving him the name of Ahcunal or the Diviner. This youth 
found, in the temple at Kabah, the silver ¢azku/, or drum, and the silver 
Zoot, or rattle, which it had been prophesied should come to light just 
before the monarchy fell by foreign invasion. He sounded them in the 
city, and terror fell upon the king and his superstitious people. The 
