Tujal Ja

Tujal Ja es uno de los 13 pueblos aliados contra el reino de Kikab', junto con los Tamub', Ilokab', Rab'inaleb' y Kaqchikeleb', entre otros. El lingüista k'iche' Sam Colop (2008: 137n209) traduce el nombre del pueblo como "baños de vapor" y observa que "es asociado al actual pueblo de Sacapulas."

Tujal Ja is one of the 13 towns aligned against Kikab', along with the Tamub', Ilokab', Rab'inaleb', and Kaqchikeleb', among others. Anthropologist Allen J. Christenson (2007: 205n516) explains, "The Tujal Ja (Sweatbath House) occupied the area surrounding the modern community of Sacapulas (Recinos 1950, 171 n. 6; Fox 1978, 76). Fox suggests that the settlement of this lineage may be identified with the ruins of Chutinamit, located just across the river and north of present-day Sacapulas, which once controlled the valuable salt springs nearby (Fox 1978, 81). The Tujalhas were conquered by Lord Quicab in the early fifteenth century at the same time as the rest of the Sacapulas Valley (Recinos and Goetz 1953, 93; 1957, 141-143; Carmack 1973, 369-371)."