·     No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, TOK, 25EMC.

·     Variants (2):

o A. Full – features:

§ God head with “left feeler eye” / scroll.

§ YAX-outline above eye.

§ A “cruller” on both sides of and below the eye (a curly, bold, lipped-U – going from the ear on the right, under the eye, to over the bridge of the nose).

§ Large hook nose.

§ “Fancy” ear:

·       Top: mammal (jaguar) ear.

·       Middle: washer or crescent with tips pointing left.

·       Bottom: upside-down “AJAW”-face.

§ Mouth tendril.

o B. Reduced – features:

§ The eye of the full variant (including the scroll/feeler).

§ The “cruller”, as in the full variant.

§ 2 or 3 oval cross-hatched elements surrounding it on three sides (not the top), with bold borders, somewhat resembling the larger “petals” of the “flower” variant of mi, without the long narrow (non-cross-hatched)) ones.

·     The example of PNG Panel 2 L2 is very eroded, but the distinctive “cruller” (though not obviously bold) below the eye is present.

·     AT-YT2021-lecture21.t0:05:44-06:36 explains part of PNG Panel 2 where Yax Ha’al Chaak and Waxak Banak & Juun Banak Chuwaaj are the gods of Itzam K’an Ahk III:

o This is where the pronunciation CHUWAAJ is given, with a long-a – it appears in the text of the accompanying slide.

o This is also where Tokovinine explains that Chuwaaj is a Fire God.

·     There seems to be no consensus about the length of the second syllable:

o Google (2023-04-23):

§ "chuwaj" "maya": 341 hits.

§ "chuwaaj" "maya": 358 hits.

o Maya-specific (reference) resources:

§ MHD has CHUWAJ.

§ BMM9 and AT-YT2021-lecture21.t0:05:44-06:36 have CHUWAAJ.

·     MHD statistics:

o “blcodes contains ST6a”: 209 hits.

o “blcodes contains ST6a” and “blcodes does not contain ST6a?”: 193 hits (i.e. most of the occurrences are read with confidence).

o It occurs at a huge range of sites (ALS, BLK, BPK, CKT, CLK, CML, COB, CPN, CRC, CRN, DBN, DPL, EDZ, IXZ, LAG, LMN, MRL, MTL, NAR, NCT, NMP, OXK, OXP, PAL, PBX, PMT, PNG, POL, PUS, QRG, RAZ, RSB, SBL, SBP, SCU, TIK, TNA, TPX, TRT, UAX, UXL, XLM, XUL, YAX, YXH, ZAP, ZPB), in many cases on multiple monuments of a single site. It also occurs on at least 5 ceramics.

o Visual inspection shows that of the 190+ confidently read instances of ST6a:

§ About 100 are the full-head variant.

§ About 60 are the eye-only variant.

§ About 30 are unclear.

o Usage:

§ In the ISIG (as patron of the Haab month): 15 hits (“blsem contains ISIG/” and “blcodes contains ST6a” and “blcodes does not contain ST6a?”).

§ In Glyph-C (as the god governing the 6 lunations): 89 hits (“blsem contains Glyph C” and “blcodes contains ST6a” and “blcodes does not contain ST6a?”).

§ In conventional phrases (including the names of rulers?): 89 hits (“blsem does not contain ISIG/” and “blsem does not contain Glyph C” and “blcodes contains ST6a” and “blcodes does not contain ST6a?”).

In all three functions, both the full-head and eye-only variants occur.

·     A connection between Chuwaj and Chiwoj:

o AT-YT2021-lecture19.t0:21:32-22:23 is a section devoted solely to Chuwaj: This is the God of Fire – his name is Chuwaj – [derived from?] “Chiwoj”, probably a kind of scorpion. [There are] some debates about how to read his name in [the] Classic period. Inscriptions <unclear=have?> varieties of Chuwaj. At Yaxchilan, for example, they have to two <appearances?/versions?> of Chuwaj. One of them is called K'an Wi' Chuwaj = “Yellow Hungry Chuwaj”. So that's the god of domestic fire [or] forest fire, that kind of fire, not the celestial file. Celestial fire would be K'awiil [or?] the Sun God, but this is the fire which is burning. // As you can imagine, this is the God of War as well. Maya kings dressed as Chuwaj when they attacked cities – when they burned cities. [And also] when they burned sacrificial offerings. // And he's a nocturnal god, of course. [Sim: the three examples shown on the slide are:  BMM9.p14.r5.c1, YAX Lintel 35 D8, and NAR Stela 21 B13.]

o Stuart-ACS.p4.para3 (in discussing YXH Stela 31): K’inich Lakamtuun is far more than an armed warrior; he displays the features of the Jaguar God of the Underworld, and his massive headdress looms above, replete with cosmological and ancestral imagery. The three large hieroglyphs at the very bottom of the scene emphasize the ruler’s divine attributes, stating that the capture “is the work of Chak ? Ik’ Chiwooj?,” a name that corresponds nicely with the jaguar attributes of the portrait.