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Yajawil of Nokaj | |
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 Flag
 Shield of Guarcama
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Motto: The Brotherhood of Chak and Yao | |
Anthem: To the Eternal Yao | |
| Capital and | Tzitot |
| Official languages | Mutli |
| Recognised national languages | |
| Ethnic groups (2020) | |
| Demonym(s) | Nokajeses |
| Government | Absolute monarchy |
| Legislature | Holpop |
| Sajal Ch'ob | |
| Mam Ch'ob | |
| Province of the Mutul | |
| Area | |
• | 138,512 km2 (53,480 sq mi) (2nd) |
History
Yao Wars
In the south of Xukaj and the north of Nokaj, the Ette Ennaka, nominally under the tutelage of the Viceroy in Puylum, had their own state and their own monotheist religion. The demands of the Mutul in 1328 to recognize the divine nature of the K'uhul Ajaw, to accept the existence of multiple creator gods, and to adopt the Bitzk'uh as part of their religious litterature were not well received by the Ette Ennaka. Aj K'inob and Aj Menob from Puylum were banished from their territory and the Ette Ennaka refused to pay tribute to the Viceroy any longer. Chimichagua was elected war leader of the Ette Ennaka in 1359. The fiction of Mutulese control over the Ette Ennaka was lost when Chimichagua's troops defeated the columns sent by Puylum to suppress the revolt.
The Purity Quarrel (1366 - 1382) prevented the Mutul from dealing with the Ette Ennaka, who were free to develop their state in the meanwhile, occupying almost all of modern Nokaj. But as the Mutulese threat lost priority and Chimichagua launched himself in expansionists endeavors, dissenters appeared who contested Chimichagua' abuse of powers and who wanted to maintain the traditional tribal social structure,something Chimichagua increasingly autocratic rule threatened.
In reaction to the rebellion, the K'iche built a new Sak B'e going from Kʼumakah to the south-west border of Xukaj. A decade long monumental work through hundreds of kilometers that allowed the Ilok'tab to reassert their control over the southern reaches of the Mutul. With the end of the Purity Quarrel in 1382, Chimichagua' coalition found itself forced to fight a two-front wars against the K'iche. The latter notably targeted the Ette Ennaka' plantations, freeing the slaves and promising them their ancient masters' lands as communal holdings. In 1385 Chimichagua and his lieutenants took their own lives to avoid being captured and the last holdouts of the rebellion surrendered.
The Ette Ennaka were forced to recognize the K'uhul Ajaw as a deity, to accept Yao as an Avatar of Itzamna the main Creator God of the Mutulese pantheon but only one of thirteen, and to respect the Slave Code among other laws of the Mutul, further destabilising their caste-based society. The liberation of all slaves who had supported the K'iche, the redistribution of lands, the deportation of war prisoners, and the division of the Ette Ennaka' kingdom in half between the Viceroyalties of Xukaj and Nohkaj, aggravated the triple social, economic and religious crisis of the defeat for the Ette Ennaka.
A new Yaoist rebellion would be led a generation later by a new religious warchief, Upaj, who rejected the multiplicity the Divine and wanted to re-establish a Ette Ennaka state. It would last from 1415 to 1422 and end once again with the defeat of the Yaoists, the deportation of war prisoners, but also with the destruction of the main temple to Yao and its reconstruction as the modern Solar Temple of Tamaja. The cult of Itzamna-Yao, or "Narayajana", became especially popular among the freed slaves and the new colonists, who adopted parts of the Ette Ennaka rituals and theology in the broader framework of the White Path. Tamaja is thus today the heart of the province' religious life.