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Bacab

According to Francisco Hernández (quoted by Las Casas and Diego López de Cogolludo), Bacab was the son of the creator god, Itzamna, and of the goddess Ixchebelyax; he had once been humbled, killed, and revived.

Diego López de Cogolludo

A native of Alcalá de Henares in Spain, he took the habit of St. Francis at the convent of San Diego, on March 31, 1629, and emigrated to Yucatán, where he became successively lector in theology, guardian, and finally provincial of his order.

Juan Coronel

Diego López de Cogolludo, Historia de Yucatán (Madrid, 1688; Mérida, 1842);

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He was sent to Yucatán, Mexico, in 1590, and there so familiarized himself with the Maya language that he was able to teach it, the historian Diego López de Cogolludo being one of his pupils.

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