“The venison and honey.” This sentence is apparently a gibe or jeer, addressed by the defenders of Cakhay to Gagavitz after his attack on their city had been repulsed. 29. _Ah queh hay_, “those of the deer (skin) houses.” _xakoti[c]en a titil a [t]ana abah._ Brasseur translates, “il ne nous est resté que les vieilles femmes et les pierres dejà hautes.” This illustrates how far he is from the correct meaning at times. For these words, see notes to Sec. 41. 30. _Xhachatah qui vach._ Brasseur gives this literally, “leurs faces ensuite se divisèrent;” but _vach_ means also “fruit, results, possessions,” and so I render it. 31. _[t]a[t] xanul_, “the uncoverer of fire.” This is supposed by Brasseur to be the name of a volcano, and the whole episode to refer to a pretended miracle. See his _Hist. Mexique_, Vol. II, pp. 166-7. He calls the passage “fort difficile,” which it certainly is. 32. _Çakcho[t]._ “Brulé à blanc,” is Brasseur’s translation, but I cannot verify it. No such stone is mentioned in Guzman’s list of Cakchiquel names of stones. It would seem that there were fourteen chief performers in the dance of [t]a[t] xanul,[TN-29] and that they took the name of certain stones. 34. _Chi [t]alibal_, “at the seat;” but the author chooses to derive it from _[t]a_, hand, which is a doubtful etymology. 35. The episode of Tolgom, his capture and death, is explained by Brasseur, _suo more_, as the destruction of the ruler of an independent tribe on the shores of Lake Atitlan. _[c]habak Nicnic_, the quivering mud, perhaps the quicksand. This strange name adds to the obscurity of the legend. _[c]akbatzulu._ The punning explanation of this name refers to its similarity to _[c]ak_, to place in front of another; also to shoot with arrows, or to stone. Its real derivation seems to be _[c]akba_, from _[c]akaba_, to reveal, disclose, and _tzulu_, to embrace, sleep together. (Compare _chee tzulu_, later on.) 37. His song, _i. e._, his death song. _Chee tzulu_, “the interlaced trees.” _Uchum_, the fifth month of the Cakchiquel calendar. See Introduction, p. 29. 38. _Ri tzam tzakbal Tol[c]om_, “throwing the extremities of Tolgom.” The reference to this festival is too slight to enable us to understand it. _Chi tulul_, “at the zapote trees.” _Qabouil Abah_, “the Stone God,” possibly the Chay Abah before referred to. _Çu[c,]u cumatz_; the latter is the generic term for snake, but the meaning of the prefix is uncertain. Perhaps it should read _çuxçu_, to move in spiral lines, as is described in the text. This miraculous form was one of Gagavitz’s metamorphoses. _Nak ruma tiqui [c]am_, etc. These words of the hero Gagavitz are not easy to translate. They seem to chide the Cakchiquels for their weakness in seeking women, and to announce his intention to remain among the Tzutuhils. _ru [c]hac pe ri ne[c]āh coon_; perhaps this should be translated, “the organs of the women have conquered.”