(8) [And in the fourth year he was born], and Shelah grew up and took to himself a wife, and her name was Mu'ak. the^daughter of KfiS&j his father's brother, in the one and "Ihirtieth-

(2) Here are the names of their wives: Cahá-Paluna was the name of the wife of Balam-Quitzé; Chomihá was the wife of Balam-Acab; Tzununihá, the wife of Mahucutah; and Caquixahá was the name of the wife of Iqui-Balam. These are the names of their wives, who were distinguished women. They conceived the men, of the small tribes and of the large tribes, and were the origin of us; the people of Quiché. There were many priests and sacrificers; there were not only four, but those four were the Forefathers of us, the people of the Quiché. The names of each one were different when they multiplied there in the East, and there were many names of the people: Tepeu, Olomán, Cohah, Quenech, Ahau, as they called those men there in the East, where they multiplied. The beginning is known, too, of those of Tamub and those of Ilocab who came together from there in the East. Balam-Quitzé was the grandfather and the father of the nine great houses of the Cavec; Balam-Acab was the grandfather and father of the nine great houses of the Nimhaib; Mahucutah, the grandfather and father of the four great houses of Ahau-Quiché.

(11) And he grew up, and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees, near to the father of his wife's mother, and he worshipped idols, and he took to himself a wife in the thirty-sixth jubilee, in the fifth week, in the first year thereof, and her name was Mglka,* the daughter of Kab6r, the daughter of his fathers brother.

(34) And after Joseph perished, the sons of Jacob took unto themselves wives. The name of Reuben's wife is 'Ada ; and the name of Simeon's wife is 'Adiba'a, a Canaanite ; l and the name of Levi's wife is Melka, of the daughters of Aram, of the seed of the sons of Terah ; and the name of Judah's wife, Betasu'el, a Canaanite ; and the name of Issachar's wife, Hezaqa ; and the name of Zebulon's wife, jNi'imant ; and the name of Dan's wife, 'Egla; and the name of Naphtali's wife, Rasu'u, of Mesopotamia; and the name of Gad's wife, Maka ; and the name of Asher's wife, Tjona ; and the name of Joseph's wife, Asenath, the Egyptian ; and the name of Benjamin's wife, 'Ijasaka.

(4) Now then, Yajnavalkya had two wives, Maitreyi and Katyayani. Of the two, Maitreyi was a discourser on sacred knowledge (brahma-vddinz) \ Katyayani had just (eva) a woman's knowledge in that matter (tarhi\ Now then, Yajnavalkya was about to commence another mode of life.

(1) Now we shall also tell the name of the father of Hunahpú and Xbalanqué. We shall not tell his origin and we shall not tell the history of the birth of Hunahpú and Xbalanqué. We shall tell only half of it, only a part of the history of his father. Here is the story. Here are the names of Hun-Hunahpú [and Vucub-Hunahpú], as they are called. Their parents were Xpiyacoc and Xmucané. During the night Hun-Hunahpú and Vucub-Hunahpú were born of Xpiyacoc and Xmucané. Well now, Hun-Hunahpú had begotten two sons; the first was called Hunbatz and the second Hunchouén. The mother of the two sons was called Xbaquiyalo. Thus was the wife of Hun-Hunahpú called. As for the other son, Vucub-Hunahpú, he had no wife; he was single.

(17) And the child grew and became an archer, and God was with him ; and his mother took him a wife from among the daughters of Egypt.

(1) Then their wives had being, and their women were made. God himself made them carefully. And so, during sleep, they came, truly beautiful, their women, at the side of Balam-Quitzé, Balam-Acab, Mahucutah, and Iqui-Balam. There were their women when they awakened, and instantly their hearts were filled with joy because of their wives.

(107) And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son.

(1) THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE FIRST men who were created and formed: the first man was Balam-Quitzé, the second, Balam-Acab, the third, Mahucutah, and the fourth was IquiBalam. These are the names of our first mothers and fathers. It is said that they only were made and formed, they had no mother, they had no father. They were only called men. They were not born of woman, nor were they begotten by the Creator nor by the Maker, nor by the Forefathers. Only by a miracle, by means of incantation were they created and made by the Creator, the Maker, the Forefathers, Tepeu and Gucumatz. And as they had the appearance of men, they were men; they talked, conversed, saw and heard, walked, grasped things; they were good and handsome men, and their figure was the figure of a man.

(19) And in the fourth year thereof he took a wife for his son Isaac and her name was Rebecca [the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, the brother of Abraham] a the sister of Laban and daughter of Bethuel ; and Bethuel was the son of Mca, who was the wife of Nahor, the brother of Abraham.

(8) And in the thirtieth jubilee, in the second week, in the 429 a.m. first year thereof, he took to himself a wife, and her name was MSlka^ the daughter of Madai. the son of 1432 a.m. Japheth, and in the tourth year he begat a son, and called his name Shelah ; for he said : " Truly I have been sent."

(4) They were originally joined to each other when they were with the father, before the woman led the man astray, who is her brother. This marriage brings them together again, and the soul joins her true love and real master, as the scriptures tell us :

(2) And starting on their journey, they said: "We are going to the East, there whence came our fathers." So they said when the three sons set out. One was called Qocaib, and he was the son of Balam-Quitzé, of the Cavec. The one called Qoacutec was son of Balam-Acab, of the Nihaib; and the other called Qoahau, was son of Mahucutah, of the Ahau-Quiché.

(1) When the soul had adorned herself again in her beauty, she enjoyed her beloved. He also loved her. And when they made love, she got from him the seed which is the life-giving spirit. By him she has good children and brings them up. Such is the great and perfect marvel of birth. This marriage is made perfect by the will of the father.

(2) Then they gave the Cakchiquel their name: Gagchequeleb was their name. In the same way they named those of Rabinal, which was their name, and they still have it. And also those of Tziquinahá, as they are called today. Those are the names which they gave to each other. There they were come together to await the dawn and to watch for the coming of the star, which comes just before the sun, when it is about to rise. "We came from there, but we have separated," they said to each other. And their hearts were troubled; they were suffering greatly; they did not have food; they did not have sustenance; they only smelled the ends of their staffs and thus they imagined they were eating; but they did not eat when they came.

(4) And at the close of the 386-392 eighth jubilee Kenan took Mual&leth his sister to be AM- his wife, and she bare him a son in the ninth jubilee, 395 a.m. in the first week in the third year of this week, and 449-455 he called his name Mahalalel.

(30) And he besought his father and her brothers that she might be given to him to wife. And Jacob and his sons were wroth because of the men of Shechem; 1 Cl. Gen. xxviii. , xxxvi. ,

(121) In the cold it was a warm garment; Her lover's name accomplished all this through love. Strangers may pronounce the "pure name" of God, Yet it effects no such marvels, for they lack love. All that 'Isa accomplished by the name of Jehovah, Zulaikha attained through the name "Yusuf." When the soul is intimately united with God, Zulaikha was empty of self and filled with love of Yusuf, The scent of the saffron of union made her smile, Each to have in his heart a hundred meanings,

(1) Well, then, Hunbatz and Hunchouén were with their mother when the woman called Xquic arrived. When the woman Xquic came before the mother of Hunbatz and Hunchouén, she carried her sons in her belly and it was not long before Hunahpú and Xbalanqué, as they were called, were to be born. When the woman came to the old lady, she said to her: "I have come, mother; I am your daughter-in-law and your daughter, mother." She said this when she entered the grandmother's house.