Sita'l

Anthropologist Allen J. Christenson (2007: n623) notes that aqal, what Ximénez writes as zital and Colop (1999) mostly writes as sita'l, and only occasionally, aqaj (see for instance p. 152), are "stingless, honey-producing bees that the Maya domesticated. Today the Quichés cultivate the stinging European type of bee for their honey, and aqal is now used to refer to a variety of wasps that live in nests. Nevertheless, many highland Maya languages retain memory of the honey produced by the older varieties of bee when referring to sticky, sweet substances such as honey or molasses, as aqat or aqal."

En su edición poética en k'iche', el lingüista k'iche' Sam Colop (1999: 152) usa wonon y sita'l para "abejorros" y "avispas" y, a veces, aqaj para "abejas." No comenta sobre el uso o el significado de los animales en la cultura o la historia k'iche'.