Oxkintok
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thumb|upright=1.3|Map of NW Yucatán, showing major ecological zones and the location of Oxkintok thumb|upright=1.2|Tzat Tun Tzat or "ancient labyrinth". Oxkintok is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in the Puuc region of Yucatán state, in southeastern Mexico.
==Etymology== In the Yucatec Maya language, the name "Oxkintok" can be parsed as "Ox" (three) and "Kin" (day/sun), but there are multiple possibilities for "Tok" (if the final letter is a soft /K/ then it may mean "snatch away / defend, lean, fall, or burn", but if the final letter is truly a glottalized /K’/ then it may mean "puncture, let blood, or chert / flint / hard stone"). Different translations, based upon the various meanings of "Tok" are found in the literature. The term ox-kin also means 'unfinished'. Different sources suggest the name could mean 'three suns of stone', 'three days of flint', 'stone of three suns', 'three cutting suns', 'burned in three days' or 'punctured by flint'.
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