K'awiil

K'awiil is inside the names of the kings. Jasaw Chan K'awiil, Yik'in Chan K'awiil, Sihyaj Chan K'awiil, Chan Imix K'awiil, B'alaj Chan K'awiil, Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil — six rulers in this batch are named after him, which is roughly the position Ninurta and Ashur occupied in Assyria, and the registry had the kings' names before it had the god, exactly as it did there. He is the one a king holds: the manikin sceptre with a smoking axe in its forehead and one leg ending in a serpent is K'awiil, and to accede is to take him in the hand.

Domains

• lightning
• royal authority
• fertility

Relations

• sibling: GI of PalenqueThe eldest of the three.Reference treatment of the Palenque Triad: GI, GII and GIII born to the same primordial mother goddess and GI-Father. (secondary)
• sibling: Jaguar God of the UnderworldGIII, the third.Reference treatment of the Palenque Triad as three gods of one birth-sequence. (secondary)

Sources

• K'awiil is the Classic Maya god of lightning, royal authority and generative power, GII of the Palenque Triad, whose temple is the Temple of the Foliated Cross and whose Postclassic Yucatec name is Bolon Dzacab.: Reference treatments of K'awiil and of the Palenque Triad. (secondary)