Lady Sak K'uk'

The Palenque succession went through a woman twice in three generations, and the inscriptions handle it by putting her name and a god's name in the same slot — Muwaan Mat is a deity of the Palenque creation account and also her. Whether that is a throne-name, a posthumous identification or an epigraphic sleight of hand is argued; what is not argued is that Pakal's claim was his mother's and that his descendants knew it.

Children

• K'inich Janaab Pakal

Domains

• queenship

Relations

• mother of: K'inich Janaab PakalAnd the source of his claim, which is why the Palenque inscriptions work as hard as they do.Reference treatment of Pakal as the son of Lady Sak K'uk'. (secondary)

Sources

• Lady Sak K'uk', also called Muwaan Mat, is queen of Palenque and the mother of K'inich Janaab Pakal, through whom his title descended; she died in 640.: Reference treatments of Lady Sak K'uk' / Muwaan Mat and of Pakal's parentage. (secondary)