Words

Maya words I have met in study, with the source where I found each one. Sakbe comes first.

sakbe (sacbe) "SOCK'-bay," Scott (2011)

Word, Yucatec Maya "White road." A raised road paved with white lime plaster. Plural sacbeob. Stuart reads the glyph sakbih on the Cobá to Yaxuná markers, so the word was in use in ancient times.
Scott (2011, web page). Stuart (2006, Mesoweb, page to add). Spelling sak beh, Yucatan Times (web).

Maya words

aj k'ixb', aj k'ajb'

K'iche' epithet "Penitents, sacrificers," a title given to the K'iche' ancestors.
Chinchilla Mazariegos (2017, p. 70).

Akyantho

Deity A Lacandón god of foreigners, trade, and disease, light-skinned, in a cowboy hat with a pistol.
Palka (1998/2015, p. 468).

b'ak'tun

Calendar A unit of the Long Count. December 21, 2012, ended the thirteenth b'ak'tun.
Source to verify.

Entrada ("Arrival")

Scholars' term, Spanish The arrival of Teotihuacan elites at Tikal in AD 378, a probable conquest.
Román Ramírez et al. (2025) (page to add).

God N

Deity An old god of the Maya pantheon. The pauahtun is a form of him.
Moholy-Nagy (2003, p. 48).

God S

Deity A Maya god shown drawing blood with a perforator, linked with the Hero Twins.
Chinchilla Mazariegos (2017, p. 175).

hach winik

Name a people use for themselves "Real people," the name the Lacandón Maya use for themselves.
Palka (1998/2015, p. 459).

K'iche'

Maya people and language Highland Guatemalan Maya whose ancestors appear in the Popol Vuh.
Chinchilla Mazariegos (2017, p. 70).

Kanul

Dynasty name The rival royal line, at Dzibanche and then Calakmul, that defeated Tikal in AD 562.
Stuart (2026, p. 169), Hammond (2026, p. 1471).

Lacandón

Maya people Maya people of the Chiapas rain forest, who call themselves hach winik.
Palka (1998/2015, p. 459).

Long Count

Calendar The Maya count of days from a fixed starting point, written in five units.
Kennett et al. (2013).

Maximón (San Simón)

Folk saint A Guatemalan folk saint, honored in a guild house in Santiago Atitlán and far beyond.
Pédron Colombani (2016, p. 197).

Mutul

Dynasty name The royal line that ruled Tikal.
Stuart (2026).

pauahtun

Deity A form of God N, with feline features and the body of a dwarf. His face is carved on one Tikal doughnut stone.
Moholy-Nagy (2003, p. 48), citing Taube (1991).

Popol Vuh

Sacred book The K'iche' Maya book of creation. Its first men are asked for blood from self-sacrifice.
Chinchilla Mazariegos (2017, p. 70).

Q'eqchi' and Mopan

Maya peoples Maya groups whose myths tell of poisonous creatures born from the moon's blood.
Chinchilla Mazariegos (2017, p. 128).

Sihyaj K'ahk' ("Born from Fire")

Personal name The main figure in Tikal's texts about the contact with Teotihuacan in AD 378.
Houston et al. (2021).

Tzotzil

Maya people and language Highland Chiapas Maya, seen in a Blom photograph of a religious official at Santiago, 1974.
Duke Rubenstein Library, Gertrude Blom photographs.

tzuqul and q'o'l

K'iche' words Provider and nurturer, what the gods wanted people to be.
Chinchilla Mazariegos (2017, p. 70), quoting Christenson.

xikin and ch'uk

K'iche' words "Ears" and "elbows," a word play that alludes to genital bloodletting.
Chinchilla Mazariegos (2017, p. 70), citing Tedlock.

Yax Mutal

Place name The ancient Maya name for Tikal, as Tankersley et al. give it.
Tankersley et al. (2020).

From Teotihuacan

Storm God

Deity A Teotihuacan god. The Tikal altar's figure is related to him.
Román Ramírez et al. (2025) (page to add).

Chalchihuites ("precious stone")

Nahuatl word A motif of white rings on red, painted on the frames of the Tikal altar.
Román Ramírez et al. (2025) (page to add).

Full references are on the Sources page.