A number of these balls, known as _yokua_, were made, each wrapped in plantain leaves. When finished, all of them were wrapped in a large palm leaf and tied into a bundle with split palm-leaf strands. Two more _tutiua_ were next made, and lastly all the masa and _sikil_ left were mixed together with a few ounces of salt. After being well kneaded this mass was divided into two portions, each of which was tied up in plantain and palm leaf coverings. In the meantime some members of the family had filled the _pib_ or oven with firewood, over which they placed a layer of small blocks of stone. The priest next made a bowl of _sachà_ (literally "white water," a drink made from ground corn and water), with which he filled the small calabashes on the altar, as well as the suspended calabashes; these he explained were for the _tuyun pishan_, or solitary souls. A turkey and four fowls were then placed in front of the altar, alive, while the priest lighted a black wax candle by blowing a piece of glowing wood to a flame; this candle he placed upon the altar. He next took up the turkey, around whose neck the assistant had placed a wreath of jabin leaves, and poured a little _balchè_ down its throat, its legs being held by the assistant (fig. 13). While doing this the priest murmured the following prayer: In kubic ti hahnal cichpan colel, ti San Pedro, San Pablo, San Francisco. _Translation_ I offer a repast to the beautiful mistress, to San Pedro, San Pablo, San Francisco. The turkey and the other fowls were then killed by having their necks wrung, and the carcasses of all five were removed to the house to be prepared by the women. The various bundles of masa and _sikil_ in their leaf coverings were next removed to the _pib_, where the fire had burned itself out, leaving the hole half full of ashes and red-hot stones. A lining of plantain bark was laid over the stones, upon which the bundles were arranged; over these were placed more hot stones and over the latter palm leaves; lastly, the earth which had been dug from the _pib_ was raked over all. The priest next took a small quantity of the _sachà_ from a calabash, in a jabin leaf, and scattered it on the ground in three directions, meanwhile murmuring this prayer: Cin kubic ti atepalob, ti noh yum kab yetel uahmetan, atepalob, tiaca tzib nah. _Translation_ I offer to the majestic ones, to the great lord, corn cake, great ones. [_Tiaca tzib nah_ is somewhat obscure. The reading, according to Don Juan Martinez, of Merida, should be _tia ca Ɔib-nah_.]