The harvests were abundant and the people turned cheerfully to their daily duties, to their families and their lords.

They forgot the use of arms, even for the chase, and contented themselves with snares and traps.
At length the time drew near for Kukulcan to depart.

He gathered the chiefs together and expounded to them his laws.

From among them he chose as his successor a member of the ancient and wealthy family of the Cocoms.
His arrangements completed, he is said, by some, to have journeyed westward, to Mexico, or to some other spot toward the sun-setting.

But by the people at large he was confidently believed to have ascended into the heavens, and there, from his lofty house, he was supposed to watch over the interests of his faithful adherents.
Such was the tradition of their mythical hero told by the Itzas.