Lady Six Sky
Maya · mortal · classic · Recorded classification
The emblem glyph is the tell. A Classic Maya ruler's title names the polity, and she never took Naranjo's — she used her father's city's for sixty years while running Naranjo's wars, which is the epigraphic signature of power without office. She arrived at fifteen, restarted a dynasty that had collapsed, put a son on the throne and went on campaigning. In a corpus that carried no Maya rulers at all, the omission of the ones who were women was not a separate omission, but it is worth saying that two of the twenty-three here are queens and a third outranked her husband.
Parentage
- parent: B'alaj Chan K'awiil
Domains
- queenship
- warfare
Sources
- Lady Six Sky, born at Dos Pilas in 667, ruled Naranjo in fact from 682 until her death in 741, waged war on its rivals, was shown on monuments as a warrior-king over a trampled captive, and kept the Dos Pilas emblem glyph throughout.: Reference treatments of Lady Six Sky and of the Naranjo monuments. (secondary)