" 11 Ahau was the katun
when they carried on their backs. Then the land-surveyor first came;
this was Ah Ppizte who measured the leagues. Then there came the
chacté shrub for marking the leagues with their walking sticks.
Then he came Uac-hab-nal to pull the weeds along the leagues, when
Mizcit Ahau came to sweep clean the leagues, when the land-surveyor
came. These were long leagues that he measured. ..."
"... the great mounds came
to be built by the lineages and all the things which the rulers did.
They were the ones who built the mounds. It took thirteen katuns and
six years for them to construct them. The following was the beginning
of the mounds they built. Fifteen four-hundreds were the scores of
their mounds, and fifty more made the total count of the mounds they
constructed all over the land. "
THE BOOK OF CHILAM BALAM
OF CHUMAYEL, Ralph L. Roys, 1933, Carnegie Institution Washington D.C.
