The Popol Vuh identifies Tohil as a manifestation of Huracan, Heart of Sky. The K'iche' patron deity embodies the creator god's fire and storm power in a form accessible to human worship.
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.
Balam-Quitze received Tohil as his patron deity at Tulan Zuyva, the fire god granting warmth and demanding blood sacrifice in return — a covenant that bound the Kavek lineage to Tohil's service through all their generations.
Balam-Quitze left the Pisom Q'aq'al as a tangible token of Tohil's covenant, the Bundle of Flames preserving the sacred fire and divine authority that the patron god had granted the K'iche' at the price of blood.
Tohil gave fire to the Four Progenitors during the cold darkness before the first dawn, warming the shivering ancestors and demanding in return that they suckle him — a word meaning blood, establishing the sacrificial covenant that defined K'iche' worship.
At Tulan Zuyva, the place of seven caves, Tohil was distributed to the K'iche' ancestors alongside Awilix and Jacawitz, the three patron deities received before the long migration eastward to the highlands.
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