K'inich Janaab Pakal
Maya · mortal · classic · Recorded classification
If the registry was going to hold one Maya person it should have been this one, and it held none. Sixty-eight years on the throne, a city rebuilt from nothing much into the finest architecture in the Maya world, and a tomb so elaborately hidden that it took until 1952 to find. His mother ruled before him and his claim came through her, which is irregular enough that his son spent the 690s building three temples to argue that gods do it too. The sarcophagus lid — a king falling into the underworld down the world tree — has been read as a great many things by people who will not learn the script; what it says, in the script, is who he was and when he died.
Parentage
- parent: Lady Sak K'uk'
Children
Domains
- kingship
- architecture
Relations
- father of: K'inich Kan Bahlam IIHis successor.Reference treatment of K'inich Kan Bahlam II as acceding several months after the death of his father and predecessor K'inich Janaab' Pakal. (secondary)
- father of: K'inich K'an Joy Chitam IIThe second son, who followed his brother.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 Janaab Pakal is king of Palenque from 27 July 615, aged twelve, to his death on 29 August 683 aged eighty, son of Lady Sak K'uk' and K'an Mo' Hix, who raised Palenque to a great power and built the Temple of the Inscriptions, in which he is buried.: Reference treatments of K'inich Janaab' Pakal, his reign, his parentage and his tomb. (secondary)