Lizana gives the names of these arrivals as _Nohnial_ and _Cenial_.

These words are badly mutilated.
They should read _noh emel_ (_noh_, great, _emel_, descent, arrival) and _cec, emel_ (_cec_, small).

Landa supports the position of Cogolludo.
_Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan_, p.28.It is he who speaks of the "doce caminos por el mar."] Sec.1._The Culture Hero, Itzamna._ To this ancient leader, Itzamna, the nation alluded as their guide, instructor and civilizer.

It was he who gave names to all the rivers and divisions of land; he was their first priest, and taught them the proper rites wherewith to please the gods and appease their ill-will; he was the patron of the healers and diviners, and had disclosed to them the mysterious virtues of plants; in the month _Uo_ they assembled and made new fire and burned to him incense, and having cleansed their books with water drawn from a fountain from which no woman had ever drunk, the most learned of the sages opened the volumes to forecast the character of the coming year.
It was Itzamna who first invented the characters or letters in which the Mayas wrote their numerous books, and which they carved in such profusion on the stone and wood of their edifices.

He also devised their calendar, one more perfect even than that of the Mexicans, though in a general way similar to it[1].
[Footnote 1: The authorities on this phase of Itzamna's character are Cogolludo, _Historia de Yucatan_, Lib.