Cochahuh and Cotzibahá, third generation.
Beleheb-Queh [I],[428] fourth generation.
Cotuhá, [I] fifth generation of kings.
Batza, sixth generation.
Iztayul, seventh generation of kings.
Cotuhá [II], eighth order of the kingdom.
Beleheb-Queh [II], ninth order.
Quemá, so called, tenth generation.
Ahau-Cotuhá, eleventh generation.
Don Cristóval, so called, who ruled in the time of the Spaniards.
Don Pedro de Robles, the present Ahau-Galel.
These, then, are all the kings who descended from the Ahau-Galel. Now we shall name the lords of each of the Great Houses.
Ahau-Galel, first lord of the Nihaib, head of one Great House.
Ahau-Ahtzic-Vinac, one Great House.
Ahau-Galel-Camhá, one Great House.
Nima-Camhá, one Great House.
Uchuch-Camhá, one Great House.
Nim-Chocoh-Nihaib, one Great House.
Ahau-Avilix, one Great House.
Yacolatam, one Great House.[429]
Nima-Lolmet-Ycoltux, one Great House.
These, then, are the Great Houses of the Nihaib; these were the names of the nine families of those of Nihaib, as they were called. Numerous were the families of each one of the lords, whose names we have given first.
Here, now, is the lineage of those of Ahau-Quiché, who were their grandfather and father.
Mahucutah, the first man.
Qoahau, name of the second generation of kings.
Caglacán.
Cocozom.
Comahcún.
Vucub-Ah.
Cocamel.
Coyabacoh.
Vinac-Bam.
These were the kings of those of the Ahau-Quiché; this is the order of their generations.
Here now are the tides of the lords who made up the Great Houses; there were only four Great Houses.
Ahtzic-Vinac-Ahau, title of the first lord, one Great House.
Lolmet-Ahau, second lord, a Great House.
Nim-Chocoh-Ahau, third lord, a Great House.
Hacavitz, fourth lord, a Great House.
Therefore, four were the Great Houses of the Ahau-Quiché.
There were, then, three Nim-Chocoh, who were like fathers [vested with authority] of all the lords of the Quiché.[430] The three Chocoh came together in order to make known the orders of the mothers, the orders of the fathers.[431] Great was the position of the three Chocoh.
[428] Beleheb-Quih in the original, through evident error. In Chapter 7 of this part the correct version of this name appears as Beleheb-Queh, 9 Queh, a day of the calendar.
[429] In the original the name of Nimá-Camhá appears twice, and those of Utzampop-Zaclatol and Nima Lolmet-Ycoltux, which appear in Chapter 8 of this Part IV are not included at all.
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