Chomi Ja'
Chomi Ja’ is the second woman of the first four women created by the gods, along with Kaqla Palo Ja', Tz'ununi Ja', and Kak'ixa Ja. She is the wife of B'alam Aq'ab'. Anthropologists Allen J. Christenson (2007: 202n498) and Dennis Tedlock (1996: 290n148) translate her name as “Shrimp House.” Christenson explains that his interpretation "is based on chom, 'shrimp, large thing, thick thing' (Basseta). If the reading of 'shrimp' here is correct, it would parallel the 'sea turtle' name of the previous wife based on the account in the Título Totonicapán (Carmack and Mondloch 1983, 175).
