CMGG entry for chit k'uh      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide and Concordance.)

Translation: Chit K’uh
Part of speech: Noun

Spellings of chit k'uh

                                         

Safronov                                 Graham                                    Coll-1

CRN Panel 3 D2                     NAR Stela 24 C16                    YAX Stela 7 pC7b

CHIT.K’UH                              <CHIT:ti>.K’UH?                       CHIT:K’UH

 

             

JM.p163.#2                 =  CPN Stela P A12

                                     Kupprat-LMylO.p47.fig2.l

lo:K’UH:ta                   K’EK’EN?.ne.<CHIT:K’UH:ta>

 

·     There is considerable uncertainly whether NAR Stela 24 C16 is actually Chit K’uh (specifically, the K’uh part). It is transcribed as such (actually, as chiit k’uh with long-i in the first word) in Tokovinine-PfaP.p97.tab4.#5 (2006), but C16b is given as “?” in TOK.p13.r5.c4 (2017). So perhaps Tokovinine changed his mind about this in the intervening 11 years.

·     The meaning of the phrase is elusive:

o Prager-SCMKC.p594.para3.l+5: chit k’uh (23 instances: 9.9.10.0.0–10.0.0.0.0).

o Prager-SCMKC.p598.para2.l+6: Theonyms that were associated with the categorical term chit k’uh are individual and were always associated with a specific historical figure, whereby kings maintained not only one, but rather multiple agents as supernatural companions. This pattern indicates that chit k’uh refers to a category of supernatural agents whom they believed demonstrated a close and personal relationship to historical agents.

·     Contexts:

o CPN Stela P A12: K’eken Chit K’uh – perhaps part of extended title/name of K’ahk’ Uti Chan Yopaat (Ruler 11 of CPN).

o CRN Panel 3 D2: Uhx “Uhman” Chit K’uh – part of extended title/name of Chakaw Nahb Chan, a ruler of CRN.

o Perhaps NAR Stela 24 C16: part of extended title/name of Ihk’ Miin (the mythical founder of the NAR Dynasty).

o YAX Stela 7 pC7b: part of extended title/name of Ix Chak Xim, the mother of Kokaaj Bahlam IV of YAX (unfortunately the part immediately preceding the Chit K’uh is obscure).

·     Do not confuse this with the slightly similar (but much better understood) deity Yax Chit (Juun Witz’) Naah Kan – the Waterlily Serpent.