Editing Popol Vuh (section)

===="Preamble"====
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! Original Kʼiche !! Literal English translation !! Modern English translation
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|'''AREʼ U XEʼ OJER TZIJ''',

:Waral Kʼicheʼ u bʼiʼ.

:'''WARAL''' xchiqatzʼibʼaj wi,

Xchiqatikibʼaʼ wi ojer tzij,

U tikaribʼal,

U xeʼnabʼal puch,

Ronojel xbʼan pa

:Tinamit Kʼicheʼ,

:Ramaqʼ Kʼicheʼ winaq.<ref name="auto2"/><ref name="auto3">Bold and capitalized letters are taken directly from the source material.</ref>
||'''THIS ITS ROOT ANCIENT WORD''',

:Here Quiché its name.

:'''HERE''' we shall write,

We shall plant ancient word,

Its planting,

Its root-beginning as well,

Everything done in

:Citadel Quiché,

:Its nation Quiché people.<ref name="auto2"/>
||'''THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE ANCIENT TRADITIONS'''

:of this place called Quiché.

:'''HERE''' we shall write.

We shall begin to tell the ancient stories

of the beginning,

the origin

of all that was done in

:the citadel of Quiché,

:among the people of the Quiché nation.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Christenson|first1=Allen J.|title=Popol Vuh : The Sacred Book of the Maya|date=2007|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|location=Norman, OK|isbn=978-0-8061-3839-8|page=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWr-_NXanhMC&q=popol%20vuh%20the%20sacred%20book%20of%20the%20maya&pg=PP1|access-date=19 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="auto4">Text has been broken in logical places to parallel the poetic structure of the original text.</ref>
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