Wuqu-Batz'
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Wuqu-Batz' was an Ahpo Sotz'il (ruler) of Iximche
, capital of the Late Postclassic
Kaqchikel Maya
kingdom.
and Wuqu-Batz' served the great K'iche' king K'iq'ab with such loyalty that he rewarded them with the royal titles Ahpo Sotz'il and Ahpo Xahil and the power to rule. The sons of K'iq'ab became jealous and led a revolt against their father that seriously damaged his authority.
After one incident with a woman and the K'iche' soldier, the Kaqchikel demanded the execution of the soldier while the K'iche' nobility demanded the punishment of the bread seller. When the Kaqchikel lords refused to hand her over, the K'iche' lords sentenced Hun-Toh and Wuqu-Batz' to death against the wishes of K'iq'ab.
K'iq'ab warned his Kaqchikel friends and advised them to flee Q'umarkaj. The four lords of the Kaqchikel - Wuqu-Batz', Hun-Toh, Chuluk and Xitamel-Keh - led their people out of the K'iche' capital to found their own capital at Iximche. The exact year of this event is not known with certainty.
The successor of Wuqu-Batz' was his son Oxlahuh-Tz'i'
, father of Hun-Iq'.
Iximche
Iximche is a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the western highlands of Guatemala. Iximche was the capital of the Late Postclassic Kaqchikel Maya kingdom from 1470 until its abandonment in 1524. The architecture of the site included a number of pyramid-temples, palaces and two...
, capital of the Late Postclassic
Mesoamerican chronology
Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian , the Archaic , the Preclassic , the Classic , and the Postclassic...
Kaqchikel Maya
Maya civilization
The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...
kingdom.
Biography
Hun-TohHun-Toh
Hun-Toh was the first Ahpo Xahil of the Mayan city of Iximche.- Biography :He and Wuqu-Batz' served the great K'iche' king K'iq'ab and he rewarded them with the royal titles and the power to rule. Wuqu-Batz' was an Ahpo Sotz'il...
and Wuqu-Batz' served the great K'iche' king K'iq'ab with such loyalty that he rewarded them with the royal titles Ahpo Sotz'il and Ahpo Xahil and the power to rule. The sons of K'iq'ab became jealous and led a revolt against their father that seriously damaged his authority.
After one incident with a woman and the K'iche' soldier, the Kaqchikel demanded the execution of the soldier while the K'iche' nobility demanded the punishment of the bread seller. When the Kaqchikel lords refused to hand her over, the K'iche' lords sentenced Hun-Toh and Wuqu-Batz' to death against the wishes of K'iq'ab.
K'iq'ab warned his Kaqchikel friends and advised them to flee Q'umarkaj. The four lords of the Kaqchikel - Wuqu-Batz', Hun-Toh, Chuluk and Xitamel-Keh - led their people out of the K'iche' capital to found their own capital at Iximche. The exact year of this event is not known with certainty.
The successor of Wuqu-Batz' was his son Oxlahuh-Tz'i'
Oxlahuh-Tz'i'
Oxlahuh-Tz'i was the second Ahpo Sotz'il of Kaqchikel Maya city of Iximche.-Biography:He was a son of his predecessor Wuqu-Batz'...
, father of Hun-Iq'.