GI of Palenque
Maya · deity · cosmogonic · Recorded classification
The Palenque Triad is the clearest surviving case of a Maya dynasty writing its own theology. K'inich Kan Bahlam II built three temples in the 690s, put one Triad god in each, and had the inscriptions run the gods' births and the kings' accessions in a single chronological sequence, so that his own succession fell out of the structure of the cosmos. The gods are three brothers and so were the last two kings; the argument is the architecture. GI is the eldest, and the registry had none of the three.
Domains
- dynastic legitimacy
Relations
- sibling: Jaguar God of the UnderworldGIII, the third of the Triad, whose temple is the Temple of the Sun.Reference treatment of GI, GII and GIII as three gods born to the same parents at Palenque. (secondary)
- sibling: K'awiilGII, who is K'awiil, and whose temple is the Temple of the Foliated Cross.Reference treatment of K'awiil as GII, the second of the Palenque Triad, born with GI and GIII. (secondary)
Sources
- GI is the senior deity of the Palenque Triad, born with GII and GIII to a primordial mother goddess and GI-Father, whose temple is the Temple of the Cross in the Cross Group completed in 692.: Reference treatments of the Palenque Triad and the Cross Group. (secondary)