Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil
Maya · mortal · classic · Recorded classification
The most spectacular reversal in the Maya record. Copán under him produced the finest stone sculpture anyone in Mesoamerica carved, he had installed the king of Quiriguá himself fourteen years earlier, and then his client took him and cut his head off — and carved it on a monument, which is how we know. Copán did not raise a stela for seventeen years afterwards. The name means 'eighteen are the images of K'awiil' and the god in it is in this batch too.
Parentage
- parent: Chan Imix K'awiil
Domains
- kingship
- sacrifice
Relations
- enemy: K'ak' Tiliw Chan YopaatHis own appointee, and the man who killed him.Reference treatment of the revolt of Quiriguá under K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat against Copán in 734 and the defeat of Copán in 738. (secondary)
- killed by: K'ak' Tiliw Chan YopaatRitually decapitated at Quiriguá on 3 May 738.Reference treatment: in 738 K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat captured and beheaded Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil. (secondary)
Sources
- Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil is the thirteenth ruler of Copán, reigning 9 July 695 to 3 May 738, son of Chan Imix K'awiil, who installed K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat at Quiriguá in 724 and was captured and beheaded by him in 738.: Reference treatments of 18 Rabbit's reign, the Quiriguá revolt and his execution. (secondary)