Kondoy, known in Ayuujk as Kong Oy and conventionally glossed 'Good Leader', is the great culture-hero and mythical king of the Mixe. He is found in the cave where the maize is stored, floating there as a giant egg, and the boy born from it grows with prodigious strength to become the war-leader and protector of the Mixe against foreign invaders. In his wanderings he plants his staff at Tule, where it grows into the famous cypress; born together with him from a second egg is his brother the serpent, who dwells in the caves of Zempoaltepetl and produces its lightning and thunder. At the last Kondoy enters the sacred mountain Zempoaltepetl, where he is held still to abide and from whose summit he watches over his people, who climb to make offerings to him to this day. Scholars place him among a wider Mesoamerican class of rain-bringing ancestral hero-kings.