7. The eighth ahau katun; thus it took place that there arrived the remainder of the Itza men as they were called; then they arrived; and about that time they governed Chakanputun. In the thirteenth ahau katun those called the Maya men founded the city Mayapan. In the eighth ahau the towns were destroyed; then they were driven wholly out of the province. In the sixth katun they were destroyed, and it was ended with those called Mayas. It was the eleventh ahau katun in which it ended with those called Mayas. The Maya men were all called Christians and came under the control of Saint Peter and the King, the rulers. NOTES. 1. _U zihilob_, the births, probably meaning the beginning of things. _Pauaha en cuh_ has no meaning that I can make out; I therefore suppose it an error for _pachah u cah_, and translate in accordance with this emendation. The phrase seems to refer to the first settlement of the country, or to the first time the scattered inhabitants were gathered together in towns by their chiefs. 2. "These were their names"; but no names are given. They seem to have been omitted by the copyist. 3. _Emciob noh hemal ɔeemal_, faulty orthography for _noh emel, ɔeemel_, the latter syncopated from _ɔeɔemel_. Literally, "since they descended; the Great Descent, the Little Descent." The tradition here referred to is given at more length by Father Lizana, in his _Historia de Yucatan_, and is discussed also by Cogolludo (_Historia de Yucatan_, Lib. IV, cap. III). As the work of the former is wholly inaccessible, I quote from the reprint of a portion of it in Brasseur's edition of Diego de Landa's _Relacion_ p. 354. "In former times they called the East _Cen-ial_, the Little Descent, and the West _Nohen-ial_, the Great Descent. The reason they give for this is that on the east of this land a few people descended, and on the west a great many; and with that syllable they understand little or much, to the east and the west; and that few people came from one direction and many from the other." Father Lizana goes on to express his opinion that the few who came from the East were the Carthaginians, and the many from the West were the Mexicans. The very corrupt form in which he has given the words has led Señor Eligio Ancona to suppose they belonged to the archaic and secret language of the priests (_Historia de Yucatan_, Tomo I, p. 24), and Dr. Carl Schultz-Sellack to imagine that they referred to East and West, right and left, as he adopted the misreading _ɔiic_, left, for _ɔeɔ_, little (_Die Amerikanischen Götter der Vier Weltgegenden_, in the _Archiv für Ethnologie_, Band XI, 1879). But they are readily analyzed when we have their correct orthography, as given above. The reference to them in this place shows that the author of the chant was dealing with the most ancient legends of his race.