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The distinguished K’iche’ linguist Sam Colop (2008: 135n205) indicates that K’enech ajaw “comes from the Yucatec k’inish, whose patronymic expression can be translated as ‘eyes or face of the sun’, such that K’inich ahaw ‘lord-face-of-sun’, is effectively “an aspect of Itzamna, Mayan god of creation’ (Barrera Vasquez 1980: 403). According to Tedlock, the term K’enech ajaw could refer to the Itza and Mopan.”