"He pivoted inside his sandal: The verb phrase here is xub'aq uloq [xubac uloc], 'he drilled hither'; FV gives b'aq as 'to drill'. Just as he had promised Tohil gives his followers fire when others had lost it, acting as a fire drill. He pivots on one leg, which serves as the drill, and his sandal serves as the platform.

His one-legged pose and the fire identify him with the Classic Maya personage known to iconographers as God K or GII, whose fire is usually shown as a burning torch sticking out of his forehead but sometimes comes out of the mouth of the snake that serves as the longer of his legs or (sometimes) his only leg (Taube 1992:69-79).

Tohil is also a manifestation of the god called Hurricane or Thunderbolt Hurricane elsewhere..."

(Tedlock in his comments on Popol Vuh)