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born till 1498. The inscription calls him the Zaachilla king Cocyopi, and 
states that he ceased to parley with the rebels of Palenque, language 
utterly inappropriate in the case of an infant a year old. There must, 
therefore, have been an earlier Cocyopi, uncle perhaps of the kine 
known to the Spaniards twenty years later. 
The Tablet of Palenque nowhere makes any allusion to the Mexicans, 
which is hardly to be wondered at, inasmuch as the Oaxacan kingdom 
interposed between them and the seat of war. It virtually denies the 
existence of an independent Quiche kingdom by calling Oxlahuh-Tzy, 
or Oxlahun Pek, the Ahau Ahpop of the House of Cawek, a title 
exclusively reserved for the supreme ruler of the Quiche nation. The 
title Ahpozotzil, given to him in the Cachiquel MS., nowhere appears in 
either inscription. Evidently, therefore, the Quiche title assumed by the 
conqueror was superior to the Cachiquel. Oxlahun tells the manner of 
his accession. His father Wukubatz, or Oxcabuc, and his uncle Huntoh 
had been ahkulels, or lieutenants of Quiche, probably after the death of 
Oikab I., and to them the united Quiche and Cachiquel people had 
addressed a request that he should be appointed sole emperor or king of 
kings. He further claimed Uxmal in Yucatan, from the fact that the 
House of Cawek, over which he was ruler, had established Canich in that 
city, this Canich being the ancestor of the last king Nohpat. If Canich 
be the Conache of the Quiche MS., he belonged to the early part of the 
thirteenth century. That is the time when Yucatan is said to have been 
invaded by the mountaineers of Guatemala. In a note to The Series of 
the Katuns from the Book of Chilan Balam of Chumayel, Dr. Brinton 
says : “ The Itzas who resided in the Peten district left the region around 
Chichen-Itza some time in the fifteenth century, probably after the fall 
of Mayapan. They were ruled by an hereditary chieftain, called by the 
Spaniards the great king Canek. Under him the territory was divided 
into four districts, each with its own chiefs, with whom the Canek con- 
sulted about important undertakings.’ This name may have been a 
survival of that given to the first Quiche king of Uxmal The Maya 
chronicles so strangely intermingle comparatively modern historical 
matter with traditions so ancient as almost to merit the title mythologi- 
cal, that little trustworthy information can be derived from them. 
In the Palenque inscription, Bolon evidently denotes that city, but it 
seems to have designated a district as well as a city, for Lolon pak, or 
the city of Palenque, is distinguished from fopol Lolon, or the Palenque 
people. Closely allied to this region was that called Buluc, which is also 
mentioned on the Copan altar inscription, along with Holhun and Copan. 
Holhun is doubtless the Holom of the Cachiquel MS. which Brasseur 
