The Greek that is typically translated in English as «was God» is translated in Sayula Popoluca as «was (and still is) the same as God.» (Source: M. Larson / B. Moore in Notes on Translation February, 1970, p. 1-125.)
In the German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999) it is translated as von Gottes Art or «of God’s kind.»