Supposing that the serpent was a totem of one of the Tzendal clans, then the effort would be to show that their hero-god was of that totem; but how this is shown by his being proved a _chivim_ is not obvious.

The term _ualum chivim_, the land of the _chivim_.

appears to be that applied, in the MS., to the country of the Tzendals, or a part of it.
The words _chi uinic_ would mean, "men of the shore," and might be a local name applied to a clan on the coast.

But in default of the original text we can but surmise as to the precise meaning of the writer.] It scarcely seems necessary for me to point out that his name Votan is in no way akin to Othomi or Tarasco roots, still less to the Norse Wodan or the Indian Buddha, but is derived from a radical in pure Maya.

Yet I will do so, in order, if possible, to put a stop to such visionary etymologies.
As we are informed by Bishop Nunez de la Vega, _uotan_ in Tzendal means _heart_.