Yucatan Before and After the Conquest, by Diego de Landa, tr.
William Gates, , at sacred-texts.com In the year whose dominical
was Cauac and the augury Hosan-ek, after the election of the one
to serve as president had been made, they made an image of the
demon named Ek-uvayeyab, and carried this to the piles of stone
on the West, where they had left the other the year before. They
also made a statue of a demon called Vacmitun-ahau, which they
put in the president's house in a convenient place, and from
there went all together to where the image of Vacmitun-ahau
stood, having the road thither all properly prepared. On
arriving the priest and the chiefs offered incense, as they were
accustomed, and cut off the head of a fowl. After this they took
the image on a standard called yax-ek, placing on the back of
the image a skull and a corpse, and on top a carnivorous bird
called kuch ['vulture'], as a sign of great mortality, since
they regarded this as a very evil year. They then carried it
thus with their sentime