re, and we took counsel there,
said our fathers and ancestors, Gagavitz and Zactecauh; and it was
after we had arrived there that we first unloosed our burdens. All
the warriors said: "Whom shall we make to be our head, we the
masters of arms, the masters of booty, the assignors of tribute, oh
thou, our younger brother, and thou, our older brother?" So said
they to us. Then we said to them: "It is but a little while that we
looked to make war, and already we are prepared, our standards are
ready, our burdens are loosed; they are the burdens which were
given us by our mothers and fathers; here are our standards; I, I
am the Sage." Thus we spoke when we unloosed our burden, our loads
of maize, our standards, our paints, bows, shields, and
double-headed lances.

19. Xka[c]ut [c]a vi koh ri chiquivach conohel, oh nabey xoh vikokij,
chi [c]ha, chi pocob, chi achcayupil, chi [c]u[c]um, chi cahcab, xvikan
[c]a ronohel, xoh cha [c]a chiquichin: Coan chivichin, yx kacha[t],
yxkanimal, kitzih vi chitan [t]al ahlabal xtikoquibeh, xtikatih vi ka
[c]haa, ka pocob. Xahala chic xatakobe, ti [c]ama kabey, xoh cha chique.
Maqui xcaho [c]amoh bey, xecha, ta [c]ama ka bey, at kacha[t], at
etamayom, xecha chike. Oh [c]a xoh [c]amo bey xoh cha chi[c]a chique.
Xavi vave komolo chivikij, xoh be [c]a ok xka[c]ul vachih [c]a hu [c]hob
labal, Ah Nonovalcat, Ah Xulpiti qui bi. He [c]oh chuchi palouh, pa hucu
e [c]oh vi.

19. Thus we showed ourselves before the face of all; first we
adorned ourselves with our bows, our shields, our two-headed
lances, our feathers, our paints; we put them all on, and we said
to them, "On with you, you our younger brothers, you our elder
brothers, truly this war is certain, we must enter upon it, we
must test our bows, our shields. It makes little difference which
way we go; choose ye the road," said we to them. "It is not for us
to choose the road," said they. "Choose thou the road, thou our
younger brother, thou our teacher," said they to us. Then we chose
the road, and we told it to them. All of us then gathered together,
and soon we met face to face a party of warriors, called those of
Nonovalcat and those of Xulpit. They were on the border of the
ocean; they were there in their boats.

20. Kitzih ti xibin que [c]habin, quetzalo, hucumah [c]a xepax kumari,
xetzalo chipe [c]hakap pahucu;