Mahucutah married Tz'ununiha after the first dawn. Through their union they founded the Ahau K'iche', one of the three great noble houses of the K'iche' kingdom.
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.
Q'uq'umatz, Tepeu, and Huracan fashioned the first four men from white and yellow maize after failed attempts with mud and wood, grinding the corn and mixing it with water to form Balam-Quitze, Balam-Acab, Mahucutah, and Iqui-Balam.
The Four Progenitors, the men fashioned from maize dough who founded the K'iche' nation, were Balam-Quitze, Balam-Acab, Mahucutah, and Iqui-Balam.
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