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"They said also and held it as absolutely certain that those who hanged themselves went to the heaven of theirs; and on this account there were many persons who on slight occasions of sorrows, troubles or sicknesses, hanged themselves in order to escape these things and to go and rest in their heaven, where they said that the goddess of the gallows, whom they called Ix Tab, came to fetch them."

"Landa's Relation de las Casas de Yucatan, a translation", Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, v. XVIII, 1941