482 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
Spanish, and Cogolludo’s error here as to the number of men slain, their names and 
the date, is clearly proved by V. 
Moreover, this Indian painting figured by Cogolludo is capable of a very differ- 
ent interpretation from that given above. In the first place, it will be remembered 
that in V only 5 men are mentioned as having been slain at Otzmal, whereas Cogol- 
ludo gives the number as 12; and again, in V, two are said to have escaped, whereas 
Cogolludo gives but one. Further, the only man who all agree was killed was Napot 
or Na Poot Xiu, V giving Ah Ziyah Napuc Chi as also being among the slain, and 
VI and VII giving Ah Ziyah, governor-priest Ah Kin Chi, as the one whose He was 
spared but whose eyes were put out. The names of the other eleven men given by 
VI and VII which VI says were killed at the same time, are mentioned nowhere else, 
neither as dead nor alive, in connection with this incident. 
In a document of 1557’ concerning a meeting of certain eastern and western 
Maya chieftains at Mani in that year to settle the division of the land, a Don 
Francisco Pacab is mentioned as governor of Oxkutzcab at that time, athonen he 
may well be a different Pacab from the one Cogolludo says was killed at Otzmal. 
Again, in a document of 1556,2 a Don Gonzalo Tuyt is given as governor of Tixcacal- 
tuyu. Finally, the number of heads in this painting, 13, is in itself a highly suspicious 
circumstance, as will appear presently. 
If this painting does not represent the massacre of the Xiu pilgrims at Otzmal 
in 1536, what then does it represent? Brinton first suggested* that it may be simply 
a katun-wheel like a number of others figured in the Books of Chilan Balam;* and 
Gates has recently called the writer’s attention to the fact that the 13 names given 
in VII are identical with those applied to a series of 13 katuns in the Books of Chilan 
Balam of Kaua and Mani. 
The writer had already examined the Book of Chilan Balam of Kaua in Merida 
in 1913 and found this to be the case, and recently, through the kindness of Doctor 
Gordon, of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, he was permitted to 
consult Berendt’s copy of the Pio Perez copy of the Book of Chilan Balam of Mani. 
This series of 13 katuns in the Kaua manuscript begins with a Katun 3 Ahau, 
to which the name Ah Napot Xiu is attached, and although the corresponding 
series in the Mani manuscript begins with Katun 11 Ahau, the names attached to 
the different katuns are the same as in the Kaua series, as the following list will 
show: 
Book oF CuiLan Batam oF Kava. Book oF CuILAN BaLam oF Mant. 
Page cxix, Katun 3 Ahau. Ah Napot Xiu, its name. Ah Napot Xiu. 
cxix, Katun 1 Ahau. Zonceh, its name. Zoon Ceeh. 
exx, Katun 12 Ahau. Ahau tuyu, its name. Ahau Tuyu. 
cxx, Katun 10 Ahau. Xul cum chem, its name. Xul Kum Chan. 
cxx, Katun 8 Ahau. Tu Cuch, its name. Tucuch. 
cxxi, Katun 6 Ahau. Cit Couat Chumayel, its name. Cit Couat Chumayel. 
cxxi, Katun 4 Ahau. Uluac chan, its name. Uluuac Chan. 
exxl, Katun 2 Ahau. Nauat, its name. Nauat. 
exxil, Katun 13 Ahau. Ah kinchy cobaa, its name. Kinchil Coba. 
exxil, Katun 11 Ahau. Yiban caan, its name. Yiban can. 
cxxil, Katun g Ahau. Pacaab, its name. Pacab. 
exxill, Katun 7 Ahau. Kan cabaa, i its name. Kan caba. 
exxill, Katun 5 Ahau. Kupul, its name. Kupul. 
A comparison of these names with those in figure 73 will disclose the fact that 
the three lists are identical, save only for minor orthographic changes. Commenc- 
ing with Ah Na Pot Xiu in figure 73 and passing in a sinistral circuit from head to 
1See Stephens, 1843, vol. 11, pp. 266, 267. 2See ibid., p. 268. 
3See Brinton, 18825, p. 15. 4See Bowditch, 1910, figures 60, 63, 64. 
