Bountiful: This is Pan
Cha’lib’, rendered “Panchalib” in the texts, which is located three
kilometers southwest of the center of the Quiché town of Joyabaj (Acuña 1975:114,
Brenton 1994:328, 334). To get there Cawek would have traveled eastward from
Earthquake. According to two sixteenth-century Quiché documents, Joyabaj (or Xoyab’aj)
was a Rabinal citadel until it was taken by the Quiché during the reign of
Quicab (Carmack and Mondloch 1989:84, 179). The inhabitants still speak a
dialect of K’iche’ similar to that of Rabinal (Campbell 1877:14-15), Cha’l
is “abundance” (FX, TC). (Dennis Tedlock, Rabinal Achi: A Maya Drama of War
and Sacrifice [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003], 292)
