K.verb.Kinchahau, fol.

390, vuelt."] As city-builder and king, his history is intimately associated with the noble edifices of Itzamal, which he laid out and constructed, and over which he ruled, enacting wise laws and extending the power and happiness of his people for an indefinite period.
Thus Itzamna, regarded as ruler, priest and teacher, was, no doubt, spoken of as an historical personage, and is so put down by various historians, even to the most recent[1].

But another form in which he appears proves him to have been an incarnation of deity, and carries his history from earth to heaven.

This is shown in the very earliest account we have of the Maya mythology.
[Footnote 1: Crescencio Carrillo, _Historia Antigua de Yucatan_, p.

144, Merida, 1881.