Yax Ehb Xook
Maya · mortal · late preclassic · Recorded classification
Tikal's kings counted. Jasaw Chan K'awiil was the twenty-sixth, Yik'in the twenty-seventh, and the number meant something to them — a Maya king's legitimacy ran through a continuous line back to a named founder in the first century, and the line is the one thing every monument asserts. The founder is a Late Preclassic figure at the edge of the readable record, and what survives of him is a position in a count and a mask in a grave.
Domains
- dynastic founder
Relations
- foundational precursor to: Jasaw Chan K'awiil IThe link is the succession count rather than a traced pedigree: Tikal's kings numbered themselves from him, which is the evidence, and the record claims no more than that.Reference treatments of Yax Ehb Xook as the Tikal dynasty founder and of the numbered succession of Tikal rulers counted from him, Yik'in Chan K'awiil being the 27th. (secondary)
Sources
- Yax Ehb Xook is the founder of the Tikal dynasty, an ajaw ruling around AD 90, from whom later Tikal kings numbered their succession, and whose mask was found in Tikal Burial 85.: Reference treatments of Yax Ehb Xook and of Tikal Burial 85. (secondary)