Hapai kan
I will tell you about “hapai kan” legend, like my mother told me this night when the moon was shining. My mom said to me: come on here because I will tell you about “hapai kan”.
Near of old Uxmal’s wall, it had a cave with dirty waters. There was a snake with wings, its name is “hapai kan”. Before it lived near of Izamal town, but it went out of its ancient place because this place where it was living was too dry and because the children ran out (it ate them). In a year, it swallowed 41 children over.
Every year, it flies with the mouth upwards in the sky. It has a watchman who cares for it and its name is: h-waya´as. An H-waya´as is a Baalba´al, it is dirty, revolting with long hair around for all its body. It was inside the cave and caring for “hapai kan”. Its work is to search children to take them at the cave so hapai kan swallowed them. Hapai kan can bring a child towards itself with its hot mouth, even though child being so far like a distance of 4 walache´es.
There are impenetrable labyrinths inside it cave. There anybody could get lost. People don’t allow their children go there. Once a year, it goes out by 4 directions: north, south, east, and west.
After 5 days it will come back. When it go out, Baalba'al H-Waya'as turn it face upward; and when it come back at its cave it is face downward. While it flies on the world, it spreads a scabies or malignant fluff similar to the corn. This way everything spreads on the 4 cardinal points. As consequence would have putrefied and harmful waters for humans and sown fields. Due to putrefied waters all the people and animals fell sick of stomachache. Sometimes this cause that trees and humans die.
In the month of august, it flies for all the sky. It will make the day when “Yum k´u” who will judge men when the world end, during 7 days any child will be born. When this day come, “hapai kan” will be dying for food.
People say that at Uxmal there is a box of stone where inside you can see a big rope. This rope is alive. One day they heard something in the box. Then they opened it and they saw the rope rolled up. So they took, it looked and saw it and they realized this rope was very long but when they tried to put it, of course it didn’t fit inside the box. They cut it and made another box where they saved it. So, nobody has found it. It will be free when the end world arrives; this day “yumk´u” will judge all people that abused of power at town.
People say that a man wanted to find it because he wanted to know what rope was. He dug all day but when he came back to the place where he was, the soil was without excavations.
The rope will be free when “Yum k´u” judge all the world. A sign will be that during 7 years any child will not be born and the wells will dry. At the Uxmal´s square will have an old woman selling water in a cocoyol´s shell (small fruit with hard shell) but this water will be very expensive. Water will leak out of her navel.
“Hapai kan” will go out of its dirty cave to go face upward for the rope. In this rope will be people that abused of power at town. If they were a good people they will go at the beautiful T-Ho´ City but if they didn’t be a good people they will be eaten by “Hapai Kan”. They will live a hell.
These people that talk about rules, norms and laws and they didn’t follow them they will be eaten by hapai kan. Hapai kan will have a full belly.
When I went on that way, these robbers that had stolen turkeys they were all year inside the “h-k´alabche´. So these people that have bad habits such as: robbers, governors, etc. they will be swallowed by hapai kan. Due to this we don’t have any hope. So my mom finished her story. =)

Glossary
Mayan words:
1-Hapai kan: it is a snake that swallow people and it have wings.
2-h-waya´as: it is a name of a devil.
3- Baalba´al: it is a demon very malignant.
4-walache´es: it is a mile.
5-Yum k´u: it is a god.
6-T-Ho´: it is the old Mérida.
7-k´alabche´: it is a jail.