Diego Juan
An ancestor of the Kaqchikel writer who died in the pestilence of the early 1520s, before the Spaniards came; Brinton could not explain the Spanish name.
The Pestilence at Iximche
Annals of the Kaqchikels, edited and translated by Daniel G. Brinton (1885) · events of the early 1520s (Brinton dates the king’s death to 1521); written down later in the sixteenth century
128. Vae chupam huna xyauabix vi ^-hac, ha ok xe^-iz chi camic ka tata ka mama Diego Juan; chi voo Ah ;J-axoc chi vi labal Panatacat, cuma ka mama, ha^-a ok xtiquer yavabil ^-hac. Kitzih tixibin chi camic xpe pa ru vi vinak, mani yabim viri quere ri x;J-hol vinak.
That year the pestilence spread, and our grandfather Diego Juan died. On the day 5 Ah our grandfathers carried war to Panatacat, and then the sickness of the pestilence began to spread. Truly terrible was the death that came upon the people, and the people did not escape it.