HISTORY OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF YUCATAN AND OF THE ITZAS

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to Mani. All this is accepted in the main by modern writers. (Tozzer,
1907, p. 9; Falies, 1915, vol. i, p. 247 ff.)

To summarize, we may say that the Cocomes were the lords of either
Mayapan or Chichen Itza, though it is more likely they were identified
with the former. They became too ambitious and powerful to please the
Tutul Xiu of Uxmal and the ruler of Chichen; they called in Mexican
mercenaries about 1200, and from then until about 1440 they became
increasingly more arrogant until, in the latter year, the Xiu and other
people who had been wronged completely destroyed the city of Mayapan,
so that only two or three members of the ruling family escaped
destruction. We have now reached the crux of this whole discussion. The
three possible surviving Cocomes were; (1) the son of the last lord of
Mayapan; (2) the Cocom Cat, who, according to Molina (quoting an old
Relacion), fled southward to Tiab at about that period; and (3) King
Ixcuat Cocom of Ake, who, according to Nahau Pech, also went southward,
about 1508 more or less.