The Annals of the Cakchiquels, page 59 by Daniel G. Brinton
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tiçavi ru vach chi huyubal, ti vulaah ronohel, ti ça [c]a ru vach ri y [c]ha, y pocob, hun nabeyal hun[c]a [c]hipilal chivichin, yx oxlahuh chi ahlabal, yx[c]a oxlahuh chi ahaua, chi yx ahpop ti hunamah y [c]ha y pocob mixnuyael. Cani ca tibe y ça ru vach ree y vikan y [c]ha y pocob; [c]ohun labal chila chi relebal [t]ih, Çuyva rubi; chi ri [c]a tibe y tihavi y [c]ha y pocob ree mixnuyael, vhix [c]a, yxnu[c]ahol; xohucheex [c]ape okxoh pe pa Tullan, xmier ok [c]a tipe vuk ama[t] ahlabal; ok xohpe ul pa Tullan, kitzih [c]a ti xibin ok xoh pe kachpetic [c]a ri [t]avonon [t]açital, çu[c], moyeuh, xo[t]ol, [t]ekal, hab; ok xohpe ul pa Tullan.
12. Then they put on their bows, their shields, their lances, their feathers, and their paint, given (as a defence) against the bugs, the dirt, the boding owls, the blackness, the rain, the fogs, the clouds; then we were commanded: "Great shall be your burden; sleep not, sit not, be not cast down, you, my sons; you shall be rich, you shall be powerful; let your rounded shields be your riches, your bows, your bucklers. If you have given as tribute jade, silver, feather work, hated songs, on that account they shall be given you; you shall receive more than others; you shall lift up your face; for jade, silver, painted articles, engraved articles, all the seven nations have paid as tribute; but there, in those hills you shall lift up your faces, there is a refuge for all of you, there you shall lift up your faces, your bows, your bucklers. One shall be your first chief, and one his junior, of you the thirteen warriors, you the thirteen princes, you the thirteen equal chiefs, to whom I shall give the bows and bucklers. Soon you shall lift up your face and have your burden, your bows and bucklers; there is war there toward the east, at the place called Zuyva; there you shall go, there is the place for your bucklers which I shall give you, you indeed, you my sons." So it was spoken to us when we came to Tullan, before the warriors of th