Home›Open Questions›What Is the Literal Meaning of Ixmucane's Name?Open QuestionsWhat Is the Literal Meaning of Ixmucane's Name?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Is the Literal Meaning of Ixmucane's Name?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-is-the-literal-meaning-of-ixmucanes-name.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Is the Literal Meaning of Ixmucane's Name?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-is-the-literal-meaning-of-ixmucanes-nameCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-is-the-literal-meaning-of-ixmucane, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What Is the Literal Meaning of Ixmucane's Name?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-is-the-literal-meaning-of-ixmucanes-name}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionIxmucane carries clear role-titles in the Popol Vuh's own text, Grandmother of Day and Grandmother of Light among them, but the literal root of her proper name draws competing candidate readings from the text's Mayanist translators, with no single derivation settled.What would resolve this A philological study of the K'iche' text against related Mayan languages, testing the existing translators' competing conjectures for the name's root against a wider comparative vocabulary, to reach a reading the field can agree on.OpenK'iche' Maya philology, Mesoamerican historical linguisticstranslated by Dennis Tedlock, Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of LifeCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnIxmucane, Deities Well-attested Source Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Lifetranslated by Dennis Tedlocktier 2SourcesPopol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Lifetier 2translated by Dennis Tedlock, Simon and Schuster, 1996Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year