182 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. VI. 
Some of the inhabitants of Palenque itself, and of the country round | 
about, united with those of Buluc, and afterwards with the Nakhun 
division of the Huastecs, and the people of Holom, in this refusal. They 
marched on Uxmal, and devastated the country in front of it: They 
sought to gain over Nohpat, its king, but it is not said with what 
success. They did, however, succeed in inducing some of the chiefs of 
Uxmal to take part with them, and also three celebrated lords, Ox- 
Winik or Winik-Yub (who may have been the Atzih Winak Hunahpu), 
Cacul, and Caichxik. At what particular time in regard to this alliance 
they killed the Hunich, or resident of the kingdom of Oaxaca, is not 
stated, nor is it definitely recorded where the Hunich resided. It seems 
probable, however, that his residence was Palenque. The rebellious 
chiefs were four of Palenque and three of Buluc, making seven, to whom 
were added the original three, he of the Nakhun of the Huastecs, the 
nameless lord of Holom, and a nameless lord of Palenque city, making 
ten. The names of Cacul and Caichxik may belong to these, in which 
case it is possible that the former was lord of Holom, and the same 
person as Ychal-Amollac, whom the Cachiquel MS. makes to have 
reigned there, and to have been foully murdered by the Cachiquel 
kings. In the inscription, however, he is called the lord of Tunxic or 
Tunxicob. 
The Oaxacan kings, Cocyoéza and Cocyopy, informed Cablahun-Tok 
of the rebellion, and at once the Cachiquel kings set forth to crush it, 
in concert with Cocyoéza. It is hard to tell who is meant by the 
Chunbezah or leader; it may denote the general Cinahitoh of the 
‘Cachiquel MS., who afterwards aspired to the dignity of Atzih Winak, 
and was put out of the way by the tyrannical Oxlahuh-Tzy. The 
Chunbezahs of the city of Palenque were doubtless its senate under 
Quiche-Cachiquel and Oaxaca. The warriors of Oxlahun-Pek, under 
the Chunbezah, destroyed the hopes of the rebels, and either took or 
killed, for in Maya chaa or chaab, through national barbarity of 
disposition, means both, Cacul, Winik-Yub, and a chief of the Nakhun. 
In the history, Ychal of Holom was murdered treacherously, and 
the Atzih Winak Hunahpu was killed at the battle of Xechipeken. 
The Nakhuns nowhere appear, nor does Caichxik, who seems to have 
been regarded by Oxlahun-Pek with special detestation. 
The whole story is one of unsuccessful rebellion against the exactions 
of a tyrant more powerful by far than the Cachiquel MS. represents him. 
Whether through fear or from some other motive, the rising was by no 
means universal in the three disaffected regions, Chiapas, Yucatan and 
Vera Paz; and in the dominions proper of Oxlahun-Pek, it would seem 
