Hunab Ku (Mayan pronunciation: [huˈnaɓ ku]) is a Yucatec Maya word originally meaning "The One Giver of Movement and Measure". It is also 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, regarded by some as indigenous writing not influenced by Christianity, some authors have proposed that the name was originally used for an indigenous Maya deity, which was later transferred to the Christian god but recent research [what research?] has shown this to be unlikely. Rather the word was a translation into Maya of the Christian concept of the "One God", used to enculturate the previously polytheist Maya to the new Colonial religion. It is necessary to read Mayan authors to establish the Ma