[205][48.] On the positions of the
alel and ahuchan, see Introduction, p. [37].
ret ri Çactecauh, “the sign of Zactecauh.” The precise meaning of this expression escapes me.
hopiytzel. See [Sec. 30] for the occurrence alluded to.
[49.] Tepeuh is identified by Brasseur with the king Itztayul, of the Quiches (Hist. Mexique, II, p. 485). He considers it a Nahuatl word, but I have elsewhere maintained that it is from the Maya-Cakchiquel root tep, filled up, abundantly supplied. See The Names of the Gods in the Kiche Myths, pp. 11, 12. It is a term often applied to their Supreme Being.
[52.] Cakbrakan, the god of the earthquake. The myths concerning him are given in the Popol Vuh.
Quite to the far East, literally, “and even to the sunrise.”