204 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL VI, 
of the Cachiquel MS., the son of Huntoh, and the father of Cablahun- 
Tox, whose name does not figure in these inscriptions. As the army 
of Buluc is made rebellious in the Akatzeeb document, it is likely that 
it is the same as that of Lahun-Pek. If Buluc were in Vera Paz, in 
the neighbourhood of the main body of the Uxab, it is easy to under- 
stand how the sympathies of its native troops would be with the rebels 
of the Oxyib or Ekab of Yucatan. 
The main instrument in the subjugation of the mutinous troops was 
Cayub, who is called the pop of the army of Quiche Cawek, and also the 
Yokchi Cayub. The term yokch¢ appears to mean “one set over,” but 
is not unlike Achih, conferred upon the principal leaders among the 
Achihab or plebeian champions of Quiche. He, in concert with Oxbuc 
of Oxyib, whom the defection of his main force did not leave without 
military resources, crushed the rebellion, and took fourteen prisoners, 
doubtless chiefs or captains of the rebels, whom, according to the 
counsel of Oxcabuc and his son, Oxlahun-Pek, they burned to death, 
In addition to these, they made four hundred prisoners, who are called. 
rebels of the Ahau of Uxmal, on account of Oxlahun-Pek having 
appointed that Ahau, perhaps Nohpat, to be governor of Katzib. Four 
hundred, in the Maya language hun bak, occurs twice in the Palenque 
Tablet, denoting the number of rebel soldiers and of civilians, refusing 
tribute, whom Oxlahun-Pek and Cocyoeza put to death. The use of 
this favourite number arises out of the vigintesimal method of com- 
putation characteristic of so many American peoples. Twenty times 
twenty probably denoted a very large number, yet, on the other hand, 
it may have been sacred among the Maya-Quiches, who, seizing so 
many, may have been satisfied with the sacrifice, and have thereafter 
stayed their hands. While Cayub and Oxbuc were warring in Yucatan 
the ruler of Palenque, acting under the orders of the former, subdued 
the revolters of the army of Buluc or Baliz. 
The chief historical import of these Chichen-Itza inscriptions is what 
they tell of the constitution of the countries of Guatemala, Vera Paz, 
and Yucatan, at a period not later, according to Quiche and Cachiquel 
documents, than 1450, the latest possible date for the death of Qikab. 
But the period must have been a good deal earlier; for Oxcabuc, 
Huntoh, and even Lahuh-Ah, are represented as having died before 
him, whereas the inscription exhibits them in the height of their activity. 
As, however, Oxlahun-Pek did not quit the scene of his conquests till 
1510, he must have been a very young man at the time of the Oxyib 
revolt, even though he is said to have died at a very advanced age. 
Since Qikab, according to Quiche tradition, was alive at the time, it is 
