Awilix, Tohil, and Jacawitz traveled together from Tulan Zuyva with the K'iche' ancestors, each assigned to a founding noble lineage, speaking to their people in the darkness until the first sunrise turned all three to stone.
Mahucutah received Jacawitz as his patron deity at Tulan Zuyva, the mountain god bound to the ancestor whose lineage would build his shrine on the volcanic peak where he turned to stone at the first sunrise.
When the K'iche' ancestors departed, they left the Pisom Q'aq'al as the sacred bundle holding the spiritual essence of Jacawitz, Tohil, and Awilix — the holiest relic of the kingdom, unwrapped only in solemn ceremony.
At Tulan Zuyva, the place of seven caves, Jacawitz was distributed to the Ahaw K'iche' ancestors alongside Tohil and Awilix, the three patron deities received before the long migration eastward to the highlands.
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