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A8S'111ACT: The god K (according to the ScheUhas clasificalion), as all the major gods of the ancient
Mayan, was an important part of the great process of life and death. And, In some way, still does.
In this sense, this god symbolizes a lot of relationships between diferents elements of the Maya
cosmology. But in all of this variability, there's a structural meaning, that stills along of all the lime
and space of Mesoamerica. This article proposses that this meaning is the force that breaks the
"hard part" of the materials of life to extract from them, their •spiritual part"; and how, trough
the arqueological and ethnography data, this function appears in the Mayan soctety.
R.t;suMEN: El dios K (de acuerdo con Ia clasificaci6n de Schellhas), como todos los grandes dtoses
mesoamcdcanos, reprcscntaba una pane import<mte del proceso de vida y muerte y, de hecho, en
alguna medida, to sigue haciendo. En este sentldo, el dios K da cuenta de multiples relaciones
c6smicas. Pero, aun por encima de todas sus rnanifestaciones V"'.triables, hay un gran significado
estructural que permite Ia posibllidad de sus multiples valores. En este articulo se propane que
este significado estrucrural es Ia fuerza que rompe Ia •pane dura" de las cosas, para liberar "Ia ma-
teria sutil" de to divino, y se explica c6mo, a t rav~s de evidencias arqueol6gicas y etnograficas,
esta funci6n aparece en Ia sociedad may.!.