Hunac Ceel

Postclassic Maya general and king Hunac Ceel CauichSacred Cenote at Chichén ItzáReignLate 12th century – early 13th centuryBorn12th century ADMayapanDiedc. 1210 AD[citation needed]MayapanDynastyCocomReligionMaya religionOccupationMilitary leader [de] Hunac Ceel Cauich (fl. late 12th and early 13th centuries) was a Maya general from Telchaquillo who conquered Chichen Itzá and founded the Cocom dynasty. While the rulers of Chichen Itzá may have been in part descendants of Toltec outsiders who might have been disliked for being foreign oppressors or the war a simple one of conquest, the Maya history attributes the cause of the war to the kidnapping of a wife of a powerful ruler by a powerful lord. (On the other hand, rulers of both the attackers and the attacked are labeled Itzá.) According to the history, Hunac Ceel, also known as Cauich, unsuccessfully fought the Itzás, having been taken captive. Ah Mex K'uuk threw him into the sacred cenote of Chichén Itzá as a sacrifice to the gods. However, he survived an entire night in the water. He told a prophecy of the rain god Chaac about the year's coming harvest. He went on, under the sponsorship of Ah Mex K'uuk, to become lord