deidad

Ajtukur es la segunda deidad nombrada en la larga lista de dioses falsos que hacen daño a la gente, por lo tanto los autores k'iche' insisten en su condición no divina. Su par es Ajtukur, quien toma la forma de un búho. El lingüista k'iche' Sam Colop (2008: 124n185) explica que "Literalmente 'los que son como los tecolotes' pero según Ximénez y Basseta es una figura para decir 'traidores.'" Vuelve a citar al autor guatemalteco Adrián Recinos (1953: 171) quien apunta, conforme a Brasseur, una posible conexión con los pueblos mayas de las tierras bajas de Yucatán.

Ajtza es la primera deidad nombrada en la larga lista de dioses falsos que hacen daño a la gente, por lo tanto los autores k'iche' insisten en su condición no divina. Su par es Ajtukur, quien toma la forma de un búho. El lingüista k'iche' Sam Colop (2008: 124n185) explica que "Literalmente 'los que son como los tecolotes' pero según Ximénez y Basseta es una figura para decir 'traidores.'" Vuelve a citar al autor guatemalteco Adrián Recinos (1953: 171) quien apunta, conforme a Brasseur, una posible conexión con los pueblos mayas de las tierras bajas de Yucatán.

The Nanawak deities, Ch'ipi Nanawak and Raxa Nanawak (Youngest and Sudden Nanawak), carry names that may provide evidence of historic language and cultural contact between and among Maya and Nahua societies. According to Mayanist scholar Allen J. Christenson (2007: 195fn537), the name Nanawak "The name is likely derived from the Nahua a (water), and nawak (near, close), giving the reading of 'close to water' (Campbell 1983, 84).

The Nanawak deities, Ch'ipi Nanawak and Raxa Nanawak (Youngest and Sudden Nanawak), carry names that may provide evidence of historic language and cultural contact between and among Maya and Nahua societies. According to Mayanist scholar Allen J. Christenson (2007: 195fn537), the name Nanawak "The name is likely derived from the Nahua a (water), and nawak (near, close), giving the reading of 'close to water' (Campbell 1983, 84).

Xik and Patan are two of the deities who cause travelers to perish on their journeys: sudden death (rax kamik/muerte súbida), as the Popol Wuj calls the condition. According to Mayanist scholar Allen J. Christenson (2007: 237n671), "Aj patan (he/she of the pack strap) is a servant, or more specifically a bearer. Patan is both the pack strap worn by men around the forehead to carry loads, as well as metaphorically any task or errand.

Jolom means “head” and “skull” (Christenson 2007: note 631, page 233). Christenson translates the name Ch'amiyajolom as "Skull Staff," because "As emblems of office, Quiché political and religious leaders carry staffs that are often topped with ornate silver cavings symbolizing divine power" (note 237, page 116).

Colop (2008: 63n78) afirma que la traducción literal de Kuchuma Kik' sería "aflicción o dolor de sangre". La centralidad de la sangre en su nombre resalta la conexión entre el padre de Ixkik'.

Christenson (2007: note 235, page 103) explains the name of this god as: "Kuchuma Kik' (Gathered Blood) is still known by Quiché storytellers as a cruel lord of the underworld who gathers blood shed upon the ground as a result of injury, illness, or violence. This blood is then served to his fellow lords at a banquet."

Christenson (2004: line 3666) translates Ch'ami'ya B'aq as "Staff Bone." The deity appears in a list of the 12 lords of Xib'alb'a, paired with Ch'ami'ya Jolom. They carried staffs made, appropriately, of bone. In his prose translation (2007: 104fn237), the Mayanist scholar notes that today such staffs, used by holders of important religious and political positions, "are often topped with ornate silver carvings symbolizing divine power."

According to Ruud van Akkeren, "Jun Tijax," or "One Flintknife," is a name of the god Tojil. He characterizes Tojil as "essentially a god of sacrifice" who "may appear as a sacrificial knife." According to Ximénez, he had been equated with Saint Paul the Apostle.

The Nahua goddess Xōchiquetzal, whose name is often translated literally as "Precious Flower Quetzal Feather," formed by the Nahuatl roots xō​chitl (flower) and quetzalli (quetzal feather), was the mother of Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl. In his larger body of missionary writing, Dominican friar Francisco Ximénez (1666-1729) equates Xōchiquetzal with the Maya goddess Ixkik'. He further states that his predecessors had, in his view, erroneously equated both goddesses with the Christian figure of Mary, the mother of God.