Hun-Toh
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Hun-Toh was the first Ahpo Xahil (sort of a king
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) of the Mayan
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The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...

 city of Iximche
Iximche
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Biography

He and Wuqu-Batz'
Wuqu-Batz'
Wuqu-Batz was an Ahpo Sotz'il of Iximche, capital of the Late Postclassic Kaqchikel Maya kingdom.- Biography :Hun-Toh and Wuqu-Batz' served the great K'iche' king K'iq'ab with such loyalty that he rewarded them with the royal titles Ahpo Sotz'il and Ahpo Xahil and the power to rule...

 served the great K'iche' king K'iq'ab and he rewarded them with the royal titles and the power to rule. Wuqu-Batz' was an Ahpo Sotz'il. The sons of K'iq'ab became jealous of the growing power and led a revolt against their father that seriously damaged his authority.

After one incident, the K'iche' lords sentenced Hun-Toh and Wuqu-Batz' to death against the wishes of K'iq'ab, who warned his Kaqchikel friends and advised them to flee.

Hun-Toh and other lords went with their people out of the K'iche' capital to found their own capital at Iximche.

His successor was his son Lahuh-Ah.
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