Then I realized how Guzman fit into the picture. Caco had said that Guzman was one of the four bacabs who officiated at the Temple of the Sun. Vargas was also one of those four bacabs, and would have worked closely with Guzman. Had all four of the temple’s bacabs been working in league with the cultists—only to turn against one another later? Maybe Vargas had refused to share the location of the itzompan with his fellow priests, prompting them to take steps to gather that information themselves.