Me'awan

El lingüista k'iche' Sam Colop (2008: 54n65) cita al autor guatemalteco Adrián Recinos con respecto a la ubicación del cerro Me'awan, el sitio de la derrota de Sipakna por Junajpu y Xb'alamq'e. Escribe: "conforme a Recinos, esa montaña 'se levanta al poniente del pueblo de Rabinal, en la región del río Chixoy.'"

Sipakna is crushed under this mountain after being tricked by Junajpu and Xb'alamq'e. Anthropologist Allen J. Christenson (2007: 105n202) says that "Meauan was identified by Brasseur and Recinos as a mountain west of Rabinal, Guatemala (Brasseur 1858, 128; Recinos 1950, 102 n. 3). It is likely the mountain known today as Miagua, located some 20 km. northwest of Rabinal and bordering the Chixoy River (Akkeren 2000, 299). If this identification is correct, Akkeren suggests that Meauan may be a contracted form of me'al ajaw (daughter lord), the Quiché version of the Kekchi origin of the town’s name, Rab'inal (Place of the Lord’s Daughter) (2000, 60, 66)." In this way, the toponym preserves evidence of language contact among linguistically-related Maya communities of the Guatemalan highlands.