4to MS., p.

13.] "Con todo tu corazon, hiriendote en los pechos, di, conmigo." _Ta zpizil auotan, xatigh zny auotan, zghoyoc, alagh ghoyoc_ .-- Here, _a_ is the possessive of the second person, and _uotan_ is used both for heart and breast.

Thus the derivation of the word from the Maya radical is clear.
The figure of speech by which the chief divinity is called "the heart of the earth," "the heart of the sky," is common in these dialects, and occurs repeatedly in the _Popol Vuh_, the sacred legend of the Kiches of Guatemala.[2] [Footnote 2: Thus we have (_Popol Vuh_, Part i, p.

2) _u qux cho_, Heart of the Lakes, and _u qux palo_, Heart of the Ocean, as names of the highest divinity; later, we find _u qux cah_, Heart of the Sky (p.

8), _u qux uleu_, Heart of the Earth, p.