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Saqi b'e

Sak (white): Códice Madrid 108A

The white way ("camino blanco" or "zaqui be" in Ximénez's script) is one of the four cosmic routes of the universe ("cahib be"); along with the red path ("camino rojo" or "ꜫaꜫabe"), black path ("camino negro" or "queca be"), and yellow path ("camino amarillo" or "cut eana be"), these routes represent the spiritual pathways and cardinal points of the K'iche' cosmovisión (14r). As Ajpub' Pablo García Ixmatá (2010: 227) notes, the color white represents "aid" or "assistance" in K'iche' Maya cosmology.

Ke'ema (gen. 10)

Regarding the ruler of the tenth generation of the Nija'ib', Ximénez originally writes "Queema" as the name (53r), and later changes it to "Quema" (56r). It is unclear whether this change represents a scribal error or a better understanding of how the K'iche' name ought to have been sounded in the Spanish transcription. The word kema translates as "loom," according to Christenson (2007: 283n876).