K'inich Kan Bahlam II
Maya · mortal · classic · Recorded classification
This is the king who wrote the theology. The Cross Group is not decoration and not piety in the ordinary sense: it is a legal brief in stone, arguing that the Palenque dynasty's irregular descent matches the pattern of the gods' own, and it is why the Palenque Triad is in this batch at all. He is also the reason the corpus can now carry GI, GII and GIII with a person attached to them.
Parentage
- parent: K'inich Janaab Pakal
Domains
- kingship
- dynastic legitimacy
Relations
- sibling: K'inich K'an Joy Chitam IIThe younger brother who followed him.Reference treatment of K'inich K'an Joy Chitam II as the younger brother of Kan Bahlam II, both sons of Pakal. (secondary)
Sources
- K'inich Kan Bahlam II is king of Palenque from January 684 to 20 February 702, son and successor of Pakal, who built the Cross Group and its three Triad temples, completed in 692.: Reference treatments of Kan Bahlam II and of the Palenque Cross Group. (secondary)