| Can | Ahau | Cimen | eb for heb | Ezanab | Kan |
| the King master of the basin of water | dead | forcing its way | earthquake | has risen |
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| Can | oc | cib | ik | lamat | ix |
| foot | sank | air—wind | filled up | crater—or bosom of the volcanoes | |
| uac | luumilob | umukan | can | kak-mul | Timanik |
| six | fertile lands | umukan | four | volcano | Timanik |
Can, the master of the basin of water, who was dead, forcing his way by means of the earthquake, has risen. Can's foot sank, the air having filled up the crater of the volcano. Six fertile lands have appeared in Umukan (Cuba) and four volcanoes in Timanik (one of the small Antilles.)
The Maya writers, as the author of the Troano, etc., sometimes represented the Earth under the figure of an old woman and called it mam—the grandmother. She is here represented holding in her left hand the sign of the smoke, and darting a javelin emblem of the volcanic energy, and in her right hand she holds the symbol of the "Land of the Scorpion" "Zinaan," the West India Islands of our days. The deer head represents the Maya Empire.
The legend literally translated reads as follows:
| that is: | PPeu, | caban for cabahaan | has struck again | —bat—ax. |
Freely translated: PPeu has struck again the tree with his ax. PPeu was the name of one of the twelve ancient rulers who governed the country in times anterior to the great cataclysm during which the Atlantic island was submerged. Deified after his death he became one of the protecting genii of the land, whose effigies still adorn the east façade of the palace at Chichen Itza, where they are placed, between the eyes, over the trunks of the mastodon's head, and surrounded with an aureola.