Siyaj K'ak'
Maya · mortal · classic · Recorded classification
The entrada of 378 is the single most argued-over event in Maya archaeology, and the reason is the coincidence of dates: a foreign lord arrives at Tikal on the exact day the king dies, and within a year a new king is on the throne with Teotihuacan iconography all over his monuments. Whether it was a conquest, a coup with outside backing or a dynastic marriage dressed as an arrival is not settled and this record does not settle it — it gives the date, the coincidence and the attribution as the treatments give them. What is not in doubt is that Tikal was different afterwards.
Domains
- conquest
- statecraft
Relations
- guide of: Yax Nuun Ahiin IInstalled him and stood behind him.Reference treatment of Sihyaj K'ahk' as regent for the child king Yax Nuun Ahiin. (secondary)
Sources
- Siyaj K'ak' entered Tikal on 15 May 378, the day its fourteenth king died, in a regime change generally attributed to Teotihuacan, and installed the child Yax Nuun Ahiin as fifteenth ruler with himself as regent.: Reference treatments of the 378 entrada at Tikal. (secondary)