Lady K'abal Xook
Maya · mortal · classic · Recorded classification
Lintel 25 is the reason Classic Maya religion is understood the way it is. The sequence is explicit and in order: she lets blood, the blood is burned, the smoke becomes a serpent, and an armed ancestor comes out of its mouth. That is the mechanism of Maya contact with the dead, carved once, with a date on it, with a named woman doing it. She was not in the registry.
Domains
- bloodletting
- visions
- queenship
Relations
- spouse: Itzamnaaj Bahlam IIIThe treatments also call her his aunt; both statements are theirs and neither is resolved here.Reference treatment of Lady K'abal Xook as the principal wife of Itzamnaaj Bahlam III. (secondary)
Sources
- Lady K'abal Xook is the principal wife of Itzamnaaj Bahlam III of Yaxchilán, for whom Structure 23 and its lintels were made, shown drawing a thorned cord through her tongue on 28 October 709 and conjuring a vision serpent from the blood.: Reference treatments of Lady K'abal Xook and Yaxchilán Lintels 24 and 25. (secondary)