An ancient text of unexpired validity, the Popol Vuh, most commonly known as the Mayan Book of Creation or the Book of Council, offers the reader myriad lines of inquiry. Whether it be its linguistic abstraction and frequent untranslatability or its interrelatedness with other Mesoamerican myths of creation, each one of its components works within a wide arrange of stories, times, and spaces to project the cosmovisin of the Quiche people past and present. Such a layered composition of meaning lends itself to and yet complicates the work of digital humanists in creating a digital edition of this wondrous text. That said, the accompanying sections are an attempt to approach a set of themes of great import to the creation of the world in the Popol Vuh: justice and punishment.