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Tatich
Tatich was the title of the supreme leader of the Cruzob, the rebel Maya of Chan Santa Cruz during the Caste War of Yucatán. Known in Spanish as the Patron of the Cross, he transmitted the orders of the Talking Cross and held religious and political authority over the military companies that guarded its shrine. The office existed from the 1850s until the Mexican capture of Chan Santa Cruz in 1901.
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