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Quiche, seem to indicate that he was Huntoh’s superior. Oxlahun-Pek 
is present, an able and active general, but in a subordinate position, as 
well as Lahun-Pek, who is probably the Cachiquel Lahuh-Ah, Huntoh’s 
son. These documents therefore, are older than those of Palenque and 
Copan, and, as such, show that the Quiche and Cachiquel MSS. of 
Brasseur are not to be fully trusted. Cayub was the Yokchi, probably 
the same as the Cachiquel Atsih, of Quiche Cawek, but he had to ask 
Oxcabuc’s permission to put an end to the rebellion, which sufficiently 
indicates Cachiquel supremacy. The chief officers in Chichen-Itza and 
Yokchi Katzib were apparently Cachiquels, under the native rulers, 
whom it would have been suicidal policy to remove. 
The revolt of the Oxyib army of occupation in Chichen-Itza, in 
Katzib, and probably in Uxmal, arose from the tyranny and exactions 
of their Cachiquel officers, who, among other things, made slaves of 
the Oxyib warriors as a matter of tribute, and refused to allow them to 
perpetuate their language in mural inscriptions. It broke out in the 
town of Oxyib, wherever that may have been within the province of 
Ekab, and spread to Chichen-Itza, which belonged to another province, 
that of Conil, adjoining it. The Hunichob Oxbuc, whose jurisdiction 
seems to have extended to Chichen, succeeded in expelling the reyolters 
from the city, after they had done much mischief in it; but they carried 
off with them as prisoners a number of Cachiquel officers, whom, 
apparently, it was their first intention to hold as hostages. These they 
~took to Katzib of which they acquired full possession, and imprisoned 
there to the number of thirty. Then Oxbuc of Chichen-Itza wrote 
letters in all directions, asking for help against the rebels, who had 
already made complaint through him to Oxlahun-Pek of the treatment 
which the Cachiquel officers had meted out to them. Oxlahun-Pek 
had appointed the Chunthan or President of Uxmal to take charge of 
affairs, which he does not seem to have done save by writing letters. 
Oxbuc and the Yokchi Cayub wrote also to Oxcabuc, and Oxbuc had 
communications with Zaachilla III. of Oaxaca, and with the ruler of 
Uxmal on the subject of the rebellion. 
Meanwhile the chief of the rebels violated the promise which the 
revolting army had made in regard to the Cachiquel officers. He made 
an excavation, filled it with fire, and cast these tyrannical foreigners 
into it, having, doubtless, been set the example in so doing by his own 
victims. This is the mystery of the Akatzeeb, which means no dark 
chamber, but is the name of the town in which the deed of darkness 
was committed by a much oppressed soldiery. The rebels were joined 
by the warriors of Lahun-Pek, who is probably the same as Lahuh-Ah 
