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Updated: June 9, 2025
When it became necessary to avoid an obstruction, Sam gave the command loudly, addressing Billy as the lead dog. "Hu, Billy!" he would cry. And promptly Billy would turn to the right. Or: "Chac, Billy!" he would cry. And Billy would turn to the left, with always in mind the thought of the long whip to recall his duty to man. Then the other dogs turned after him.
Now the sun did indeed swing to the horizon, so that there remained scant daylight. "Chac, Billy!" cried Sam, who again wielded the whip. Slowly, wearily, the little party turned aside. In the grove of spruce the snow clung thick and heavy. A cold blackness enveloped them like a damp blanket. Wind, dying with the sun, shook the snow from the trees and cried mournfully in their tops.
This was placed at one end of the room upon a carved pedestal; and at the opposite end of the room, the end farthest removed from the entrance, was a great stone image of the god Chac Mool.
From contemporary travellers' records are to be gleaned many such strange facts and stranger fancies regarding the precious bean and its products, some of them extremely quaint and curious. Bancroft, for instance, writing of the Maya races of the Pacific, tells us that "before planting the seed they held a festival in honour of their gods, Ekchuah, Chac, and Hobnil, who were their patron deities.
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