I confess that to me it has a suspiciously mythical aspect. It is too similar to what I may call the standard hero-myth of the American Aborigines. Everywhere, both in North and South America, we find the myth of the four brothers who divided the land between them, one of whom is superior to the others and becomes the ruler and instructor of the ancestors of the nation. He does not die, but disappears, or goes to heaven, and is often expected to return. Just so in one of the Maya myths, Cuculcan did not return to Mexico, but rose to heaven, whence once every year he descended to his temple at Mayapan and received the gifts which from far and wide pious pilgrims had brought to his shrine (Landa, _Relacion_, p. 302). All these myths relate to the worship of the four cardinal points and to the Light-God, as I have shown in a previous work (_The Myths of the New World_, chap. III. New York, 1876). The proper names in the legend have nothing of a Nahuatl appearance. They are all pure Maya. The "kinsman of Moctezuma," the second reading of whose name is the correct one, is given as _tan u pol chicbul_, "in front of the head of the jay-bird," the _chicbul_ being what the Spaniards call the _mingo rey_, which I believe is a jay (Beltran, _Arte del Idioma Maya_, p. 229). The other long name is a compound of _Zuhuy kak camal cacal puc_. The historian Cogolludo informs us that _Zuhuy Kak_, literally "virgin fire," was the daughter of a king, afterwards deified as goddess of female infants (_Historia de Yucatan_, Lib. IV, cap. VIII). _Camal_ was and is a common patronymic in Yucatan; _cacalpuc_ means "mountain land,"[121-1] and thus the whole name is easily identified as Maya. Possibly the member of the family Camal who bore the name was a priest of the goddess. It will be noticed that neither the legend nor the legal testimony speaks of these foreigners as of a different language or lineage, but leaves us to infer the contrary. Had they been of Aztec race it would certainly have been noticed, for the Mayas had frequent mercantile relations with these powerful neighbors, they borrowed many words from the Nahuatl tongue, and single chiefs in Yucatan formed alliances with the Aztec rulers, and introduced Aztec warriors even into Mayapan, as is shown by the Chronicles I publish in this work, and also by the fact that a small colony of Aztecs, descendants of these mercenaries, was living in the province of Canul, west of Merida, when the Spaniards conquered the country (Landa, _Relacion_, p. 54). Therefore the Aztecs were no strangers to the Mayas, and doubtless the learned members of the priesthood and nobles in the fifteenth century were quite well aware of the existence of the powerful empire of Anahuac.