Tu kinil uil u natabal kine, Yume ti yokcab te ahtepal. Uale canɔit u katunil, Uchi uale hahal pul. Tu kin kue yoklal u kaba, In kubene yume. Ti a-uich-ex tu bel a uliah, Ahitza, U yum cab ca ulom. Than tu chun ahau Pech ahkin, Tu kinil uil can ahau katun, Uale tan hiɔil u katunil. THE WORD OF THE LORD PECH, THE PRIEST. At that time it will be well to know the tidings, Of the Lord, the ruler of the world. After four katuns, Then will occur the bringing of the truth. At that time one who is a god by his name, I deliver to you as a lord. Be your eyes on the road for your guest, Men of Itza, When the lord of the earth shall come. The word of the first lord, Pech, the priest, At the time of the fourth katun, At the end of the katun. The only line in which I have taken much liberty with the text is the fifth, where, after the word _kue_, one MS. reads: _yok taa ba akauba_, and another, _yok lac kauba_, neither of which is intelligible. If the date assigned in these lines be a correct one, they were delivered by the prophet in 1469. It is not impossible. The words are obscure and the prediction so indistinct that it might quite well have been made by an official augur at that time. 31. Nachi Cocom, head of the ancient and powerful Cocom family, ruled at Zotuta when Montejo made his settlement at Merida, and was a determined enemy of the Spaniards. He was defeated in 1542, in a sanguinary battle, and then accepted terms of peace. I have in my possession the copy of a survey which he made of the lands of the town of Zotuta in 1545, when he was evidently on good terms with the Conquerors. 32. The names Chan, Catzim and Chul belong to well known ancient Yucatecan families, and many who bear them are still found among the natives (Berendt, _Nombres Proprios en Lengua Maya_, MS.)[TN-33] The words Zacuholpatal Zacmutixtun are rendered by Avila as proper names, and I have followed his example. I have not found a satisfactory explanation of them. 33. The day _One Imix_ was a day of peculiar sanctity in ancient Yucatan. Landa makes the rather unintelligible assertion that the count of their days, or their calendar, invariably commenced on that day (_Relacion_, p. 236). Imix is the 18th day of the month, and it is possibly[TN-34] that it and the two following days were used for intercalary days.