jun winaq
Several scholars have commented on the overt intervention of Ximénez into the story of the Popol Wuj, wherein a person (jun winaq) begins to speak with the four founders, B'alam K'itze', B'alam Aq'ab', Majuk'utaj, and Iqi' B'alam, and the colonial friar indicates in parenthesis, "(Demonium loquens cis) / (Demonío q’les hablaba)" (Ximénez 1701: 36v), what Mayanist expert Allen J. Christenson (2007: 202) translates into Engish as "Demon speaking from here on." Christenson argues that this moment represents Ximénez's only explicit commentary in the text.