Freely translated: _PPeu has struck again the tree with his ax_. PPeu was the name of one of the twelve ancient rulers who governed the country in times anterior to the great cataclysm during which the Atlantic island was submerged. Deified after his death he became one of the protecting genii of the land, whose effigies still adorn the east façade of the palace at Chichen Itza, where they are placed, between the eyes, over the trunks of the mastodon's head, and surrounded with an aureola. [5] Symbol of the three sons of King Can—represented under the emblem of the three deer heads—_Uluumil ceh_, "the land of the deer," being one of the names of the country of the Mayas. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 Years Ago, by Augustus Le Plongeon