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The '''Witz Machilob''' or '''Mountain Clans''' as they are known in [[Mutli]], but generally referred to as '''Puxtjay''' ("People of the Machete") by its members is an {{wp|Mixe people|Ayüükjä'äy}} - {{wp|Zoque people|O'de püt}} is an {{wp|Organized crime|criminal society}} originating from the [[Mutul]], in the hills and mountains separating the provinces of [[Yajawil of Joy Chan|Joy Chan]], [[Yajawil of Muynal|Muynal]], and [[Yajawil of Kanol|Kanol]] and dating to at least the 19th century. the Mountain Clans represent an especially secretive society which has proven especially difficult to infiltrate by the authorities. This is mostly due to their family-based recruitment, membership within the organisation is a purely dynastic affair, and only loose ties between Clans.
{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict = Sajal War
|partof =
| image      = Common soldier.jpg
| caption    = A common Mutulese soldier during the Sajal War
|date = 1828 - 1839
|place = [[Mutul]]
|result = Royalist Victory
*Capitulation of the [[Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale]]
*Reunification of the [[Mutul]]
*Beginning of the Itzamnaaj Reformation
|combatant1 = {{flag|Mutul|Royalists}}
|combatant2 = {{flag|Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale}}
|commander1 = [[Itzamnaaj B’alam]]
|commander2 = [[Bolon Chan Witz]]
|strength1  =
|strength2  =
|casualties1 =
|casualties2 =
}}


The '''Sajal War''', also known as the '''War of the Frightfuls''' or '''Terrifying War''', was a civil war that opposed the [[Ilok'tab Dynasty]] of the [[Mutul]] and their loyalists against the [[Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale]]. It lasted from 1828 with the murder of the Divine Queen [[Ilok'tab Dynasty#Ik.27skull|Ik'skull]] and the proclamation by the Sajal Holpop of the [[Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale]].
The Clan form the basic unit of the organization. Each Clan consider itself sovereign over a given territory, generally a village or a neighborhood. In their territory, they practice {{wp|Racketeering}}, {{wp|Procuring (prostitution)|Prostitution}}, {{wp|Gambling}}, and {{wp|Usury}}.


===Origins===
==History==


Since the rule of [[Balijaj Chan K'awiil I]] in the early 18th century, the powers and authority of the [[Divine Monarchy of the Mutul|K'uhul Ajaw]] kept being limited by the ever more powerful merchant-aristocracy of the [[Mutul]]. Local and national assemblies became permanent legal institutions whom obtained a de-facto say on the Divine King's politics after much political troubles. The weakening of the [[Mutulese Ochran|Mutul's position in the West]] after the [[Tsurushima|Tsurushimese revolution]] of 1750 only exacerbated a conflict between a weakened monarchy and its nobility whom, inspired by both local and foreign thinkers, especially from [[Sante Reze]] developed a more {{wp|liberalism|liberal}} approach to both the economy and politics.
The ''People of the Machete'' developed in the essentially tribal society of the 19th century western [[Mutul]]. The {{wp|Mixe people|Ayukjay}} and {{wp|Zoque people|O'de}} are two {{wp|Mixe–Zoque languages|closely related}} ethnic group, themselves covering a range of around sixteen or so dialects. Following traditional tales and archeologic evidences, these groups are often considered to be the modern successors of the ancient {{wp|Olmecs|Chakb'ah}} and {{wp|Epi-Olmec culture|Tzib’ah}} civilizations.


In 1819, the [[Second War for Kahei]] started, threatening some of the merchant-aristocracy's positions in Ochran. In 1820, [[Wahlam B'alam V]] died in [[K'umarkaj]] after a decade long semi-exile ordered by the Sajal Holpop, the Nobility's Assembly, who had taken over [[K'alak Muul]]. His young son, [[Wahlam B'alam VI]], was brought back to the capital to be crowned and ruled as a puppet king for the Sajal Holpop. The same year, he died of illness and was succeeded by his elder sister, Lady [[Ilok'tab Dynasty#Ik.27skull|Ik'skull]]. Ik'skull tried to restructure the [[Mutul|Divine Throne]] bureaucracy and to limit the powers of the assemblies like the Sajal Holpop. In 1828, a conspiracy of Mutuleses aristocrats managed to murder the Divine Queen and her body was pushed from the balcony of [[K'alak Muul|her palace]]. This trigger a series of events that led to her husband fleeing the capital with their son, the future [[Ilok'tab_Dynasty#Balijaj_Chan_K.27awiil|B'ailjaj Chan K'awiil II]], and the Sajal Holpop proclaiming the end of the [[Mutul]] and the creation of the [[Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale]].
In the 18th century, Ayukjay and O'de people were mostly present in the highlands of the [[Yajawil of Yokok'ab]] and [[Yajawil of Muynal]]. Farming was their principal activity, producing raw materials for the artisans and enterprises of [[Yu]]. Poorer than their {{wp|Chontal Maya language|Yokot'an}} neighbors, many of these highlanders ended up migrating to [[Yu]], to serve among the [[Mutulese Ochran|Great Companies]] as sailors or marines. But after the 1750s, an economic crisis from which the Mutul never entirely recovered greatly reduced the economic opportunities across the Divine Kingdom. Ayukjay and O'de people especially suffered during this time as they ended up constantly sidelined in favour of their Yokot'an, {{wp|Mixtec|Nuu Davi}}, and {{wp|Ben Naa}} neighbors. These same ethnies would become core components of the [[Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale]] during the [[Sajal War]]. As a result, Ayukjay and O'de people would mostly side with the Royalists in that civil war, forming pockets of resistance against the Noble Republic' conscription and taxation. It's then that the expression "People of the Machete" first appeared.


==Combattants==
In the aftermath of the Civil War, the [[Ilok'tab Dynasty]] wished to reward its partisans across the country, the Men of the Machete included. The idea of a "Witz Machilob" (''Mountaineers'') Vice-Kingdom was floated, but ultimately a different solution was prefered. Yokok'ab was divided in two, its highlands becoming the [[Yajawil of Joy Chan]], which was still dominated by a {{wp|Chontal Maya language|Yokot'an}} aristocracy despite the greater powers acquired by the Ayukjay and O'de at the provincial level. ALthough most of the O'de people lived in this new state, the bulk of the Ayukjay population would remain in the [[Yajawil of Kanol]] where they acquired provincial-level autonomy.  
===Ilok'tab Loyalists===
[[File:Mutul Flag.png|250px|thumb|The current [[Flag of the Mutul]] was created by Monarchists militias during the civil war]]
After his escape from [[K'alak Muul]], [[Itzamnaaj B'alam]], king-consort of [[Ilok'tab Dynasty#Ik.27skull|Ik'skull]] gained [[K'umarkaj]], the traditional base of power of the [[Ilok'tab Dynasty]] and enthroned his son as [[Ilok'tab_Dynasty#Balijaj_Chan_K.27awiil|B'ailjaj Chan K'awiil II]] while he himself took the position of Regent. He amassed around him an inner circle of friends, family members, and clients, and built from there his resistance to the Noble Republic. After a few months he moved his base of operation further east, as he gathered there the Divine Army, which had globally remained loyal to the [[Ilok'tab Dynasty|Ilok'tab]], alongside various loyalists militias he trained and organized into what would become the core of the Royalist army.


The leadership of the Loyalists was thus made of the [[Ilok'tab Dynasty]] and all associated lineages. {{wp|K'iche people|K'iche}} and {{wp|Mam people|Mam}} people had remained heavily tied to the Ilok'tab, tjeir countries too distant from the main hub of international trades with either [[Ajax|Ochran]] or [[Sante Reze]] to lose their dependence toward the central authorities. They would form the bulk of the troops and officers of the Royalists armies.
In Joy Chan, inter-community violences would become the norm between the Yokot'an and the O'de, to the point the former would give the latter the name of ''Ok'ol'', "''The Mud''". After the first wave of expropriation and redistribution of the lands that followed the Sajal War, during which Royalist troops played a key role in law enforcement, the region was left more-or-less to fend for itself by the royal authorities. In the void left, elites of both sides would recruit their own "companies-at-arms" to hunt down thieves, opposing bandits, and negotiate the return of stolen property. The O'de troops, obviously, were mostly made up of People of the Machete.


The {{wp|Chibchan languages|Chibchans}} also became prominent in the Royalists armies. The countryside of the eastern regions was thorn appart by the heavy social changes that led to the creation of the [[Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale]] and had been especially plagued by riots or protests in support of traditional social organization and against the transition from the old Market System, directed by the State, to the more liberal system of self-governance of the Merchant-aristocracy promoted by the forces that formed the Republic. Itzamnaaj spend the early years of the war exploiting this divide between the new middle class that had appeared since the 1700s and the countryside. It's this work of "recuperation" of the Chibchans and Lencas regions, and the promises made at the time, that layed the basis for the future Itzamnaaj Reformation, post-war.
This proto ethnic war was ultimately won by the Yokot'an elites who secured the [[Yu]] - [[Sakulew]] {{wp|Rail transport|railroad}} and the [[S'aa River]] waterway.
 
In the Xuman Peninsula and the central regions, support toward the Royalists or the Republicans changed from town to town, from family to family. Old rivalries and dynastic conflicts came to feed the civil war, from local ancestral vendettas, to mistrust toward the [[Yajawil of Kanol|Tatinak]] and {{wp|Chontal Maya|Yokot'an}} aristocracies who were the main backers of the Noble Republic. Ultimately, these regions would become part of the [[Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale]], but would remain plagued by insurrections and protests the Royalists were able to turn into pro-Ilok'tab movements. The current [[flag of the Mutul]], the Yax-Sak-Kan, was notably created as a pro-Ilok'tab flag by {{wp|Ch'ol|K'ol}} militias.
 
===Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale===
[[File:Seal of the Republic of the Rio Grande.svg|250px|thumb|The blason used by the Noble Republic's military. The white and black, representing the north and the west respectively, were often replaced by green, which represented unity]]
 
The Republic's power-base was made of the middle class and the merchant-aristocracy everywhere in the country. It was especially well established in the [[Yajawil of Kanol]] and the East in general, where trans-Makrian trades had led to the emergence of a wealthy "modern" society that had the time to stabilize itself as it had existed for more than 200 years by the time of the Sajal War. A similar but much younger analogue society had emerged in the East after the [[Sante Reze]] revolution of 1701 that opened the Trans-thalassian trades to the Mutuleses merchant-nobility. While even more radical in its support of the Noble Republic than the "West", the "East" also proved to be the weak link of the Republicans, as it's relatively recent emergence meant that it was still full of contradictions, paradoxes, and social divides on which the Royalists managed to play to gain the upper-hand.
 
The leadership of the Noble Republic was made entirely by the old merchant-nobility of the [[Mutul]] that had complete control over local leaderships and national financial markets. They were backed by all the smaller-scale merchants and urban middle classes that had come to depend on the Trans-Makrian and Trans-Thalassian trades for their livelihood. However, except in the west, their power quickly dwindled outside of urban centers and they had barely, if any, control over the countrysides of the north, center, and east of the countries, where local priest-bureaucrats, often nobles of their own but removed from the financial circles reserved to the high aristocracy, became a constant source of defiance and opposition to the Republic, if not outright turned to insurrections, quickly re-appropriated by the royalists.

Latest revision as of 18:43, 19 January 2022

The Witz Machilob or Mountain Clans as they are known in Mutli, but generally referred to as Puxtjay ("People of the Machete") by its members is an Ayüükjä'äy - O'de püt is an criminal society originating from the Mutul, in the hills and mountains separating the provinces of Joy Chan, Muynal, and Kanol and dating to at least the 19th century. the Mountain Clans represent an especially secretive society which has proven especially difficult to infiltrate by the authorities. This is mostly due to their family-based recruitment, membership within the organisation is a purely dynastic affair, and only loose ties between Clans.

The Clan form the basic unit of the organization. Each Clan consider itself sovereign over a given territory, generally a village or a neighborhood. In their territory, they practice Racketeering, Prostitution, Gambling, and Usury.

History

The People of the Machete developed in the essentially tribal society of the 19th century western Mutul. The Ayukjay and O'de are two closely related ethnic group, themselves covering a range of around sixteen or so dialects. Following traditional tales and archeologic evidences, these groups are often considered to be the modern successors of the ancient Chakb'ah and Tzib’ah civilizations.

In the 18th century, Ayukjay and O'de people were mostly present in the highlands of the Yajawil of Yokok'ab and Yajawil of Muynal. Farming was their principal activity, producing raw materials for the artisans and enterprises of Yu. Poorer than their Yokot'an neighbors, many of these highlanders ended up migrating to Yu, to serve among the Great Companies as sailors or marines. But after the 1750s, an economic crisis from which the Mutul never entirely recovered greatly reduced the economic opportunities across the Divine Kingdom. Ayukjay and O'de people especially suffered during this time as they ended up constantly sidelined in favour of their Yokot'an, Nuu Davi, and Ben Naa neighbors. These same ethnies would become core components of the Noble Republic of Northern Oxidentale during the Sajal War. As a result, Ayukjay and O'de people would mostly side with the Royalists in that civil war, forming pockets of resistance against the Noble Republic' conscription and taxation. It's then that the expression "People of the Machete" first appeared.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Ilok'tab Dynasty wished to reward its partisans across the country, the Men of the Machete included. The idea of a "Witz Machilob" (Mountaineers) Vice-Kingdom was floated, but ultimately a different solution was prefered. Yokok'ab was divided in two, its highlands becoming the Yajawil of Joy Chan, which was still dominated by a Yokot'an aristocracy despite the greater powers acquired by the Ayukjay and O'de at the provincial level. ALthough most of the O'de people lived in this new state, the bulk of the Ayukjay population would remain in the Yajawil of Kanol where they acquired provincial-level autonomy.

In Joy Chan, inter-community violences would become the norm between the Yokot'an and the O'de, to the point the former would give the latter the name of Ok'ol, "The Mud". After the first wave of expropriation and redistribution of the lands that followed the Sajal War, during which Royalist troops played a key role in law enforcement, the region was left more-or-less to fend for itself by the royal authorities. In the void left, elites of both sides would recruit their own "companies-at-arms" to hunt down thieves, opposing bandits, and negotiate the return of stolen property. The O'de troops, obviously, were mostly made up of People of the Machete.

This proto ethnic war was ultimately won by the Yokot'an elites who secured the Yu - Sakulew railroad and the S'aa River waterway.

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