_Rubanic chay abah ri [c,]apal_, etc.; this obscure passage was, I think, entirely misunderstood by Brasseur. The word _[c,]apal_ is derived from the neuter form _[c,]ape_ of the active _tin [c,]apih_, I shut up or enclose, and means “that which is shut up,” _lo cerrado_, and _[c,]apibal_, the active form in the next line, means “that which shuts up,” _i. e._, gates or doors. It will be remembered (see ante, p. 26) that the gates of Iximche were constructed partly of, or ornamented with, obsidian, and the same is supposed here of the gates of the mythical city or place of Tulan. _ki-kan_; our burden, our tribute. The passage seems to indicate that they left their former country to escape subjection. _[c]oh qui tzih_; the passage may be translated “theirs were the words which incited us,” _i. e._, to revolt and to depart. 6. The articles mentioned as paid in the tribute, have been described in the Introduction (see p. 39). 7. “So spoke the Obsidian Stone,” _i. e._, the sacred oracle, referred to as the final arbiter. See anté, p. 26. “The wood and stone which deceive,” that is, the idols of wood and stone which they worshiped. 8. This paragraph is obscure, and the numerous erasures in Brasseur’s translation indicate the difficulty he found in discovering its meaning. 9. _[c]holloh tacaxepeval rikan [c]eche_; Brasseur translates this: “_Malheureux etaient[TN-27] les fils et les vassaux des Quiches._” I take the word _tacaxepeval_ to be the name of the first month in the Cakchiquel calendar (see anté, p. 29); and _[c]olloh_ means “to divest ourselves of, to get rid of.” 13. This and the following section describes the efforts of certain inimical powers, under the guise of birds, to obstruct and deceive the Cakchiquels. The _chahalçivan_ is a small bird which builds in the rocky sides of the ravines, and is called by the Spaniards by a literal translation, “_El guarda barranca_,” the gully-guard. The _tucur_ is the owl; this name being apparently an abbreviation of the Nahuatl _tecolotl_. The bird called _[c]anixt_ is the Spanish _cotorra_, a small species of parrot. (Guzman, _Compendio de Nombres_, MS.) On the word _labalinic_, see Introduction, p. 47. 14. The owl sat on the red tree, the _caka chee_, whence, as we learn later, the tribe derived its name, Cakchiquel--a doubtful derivation. _Chee abah_, wood and stone; understood to refer to the idols of these substances. _Ça[t]ih_, for _Cak[t]ih_, the spring. Father Coto has the following under the words: “_Estio vel verano, Çak[t]ih; pa çak [t]ih_, en el estio vel verano. Y nota que los que nosotros decimos en saliendo el verano, o que quando para, estos lo entrinden al contrario; porque decin, _mixel çak [t]ih, mani chic ru [t]ih hab_, ya salió el verano, no ay mas aguero.”