To accommodate the pilgrims four paved roads had been constructed, to the North, South, East and West, straight toward the quarters of the four winds.
[Footnote 1: Lizana says: "Se llama y nombra _Kab-ul_ que quiere decir mano obradora," and all writers have followed him, although no such meaning can be made out of the name thus written.

The proper word is _kabil_, which is defined in the _Diccionario del Convento de Motul_, MS., "el que tiene buena mano para sembrar, o para poner colmenas, etc." Landa also gives this orthography, _Relacion_, p.

216.] Sec.2._The Culture Hero, Kukulcan._ The second important hero-myth of the Mayas was that about Kukulcan.

This is in no way connected with that of Itzamna, and is probably later in date, and less national in character.

The first reference to it we also owe to Father Francisco Hernandez, whom I have already quoted, and who reported it to Bishop Las Casas in 1545.