Editing Hunab Ku (section)

{{Short description|Mayan deity}}

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| type         = Maya
| name         = Hunab Ku
| deity_of     = <!-- or god_of / Alusi_of --> Creator deity
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| other_names  = Junab K'uj
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| Greek_equivalent         = [[Phanes]]
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| Norse_equivalent         = [[Ymir]]
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| Hinduism_equivalent      = [[Brahma]]
| Canaanite_equivalent     = [[El (deity)|El]]
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| Aztec_equivalent         = [[Tezcatlipoca]]
| Manipuri_equivalent      = [[Sidaba Mapu]]
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'''Hunab Ku''' ({{IPA|myn|huˈnaɓ kʼu}}, standard Yucatec Mayan orthography: '''Junab K'uj''') is a colonial period [[Yucatec Maya]] ''reducido'' term meaning "The One God". It is used in colonial, and more particularly in doctrinal texts, to refer to the Christian God. Since the word is found frequently in the [[Chilam Balam of Chumayel]], a [[syncretism|syncretistic]] document heavily influenced by Christianity, it refers specifically to the Christian God as a translation into Maya of the Christian concept of one God, used to enculturate the previously [[polytheist]] Maya to the new religion.<ref>Hanks 2010:355 - "It is not objected that ''hunnab ku'' could refer as well to a non-Christian deity, as to God, and if so our reading of the foregoing passages would shift fundamentally. Even if this is possible in theory, it is unlikely in fact {{why?|date=July 2022}}."</ref>

References to Hunab Ku have figured prominently in [[New Age]] [[Mayanism]] such as that of [[José Argüelles]].