Piedras, poder y la traducción de tradiciones mayas
This section reveals an important gap between the K’iche’ and Spanish columns of father Ximénez’s manuscript copy, and one of the cases where we find Spanish colonial intervention – intended or unconscious – into the K’iche’ story. The K’iche’ descriptions of the types of metals used to showcase power and authority reads as such: “xul puwaq” (Colop 1999: 195) or “trajeron metals” (Colop 2008: 212), what Allen J.