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Kʼinich Janaab Pakal was a Palenque native, born on 9.8.9.13.0 (March 603) to Lady Sak Kʼukʼ of the ruling Palenque dynasty and her husband Kʼan Moʼ Hix. Pakal's birth came during a particularly turbulent time in Palenque's history.
Janahb Pakal also known as Janaab Pakal, Pakal I or Pakal the Elder, (died 6 March 612), was a nobleman and possible ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque. [ 2 ] Biography
The tomb itself is remarkable for its large carved sarcophagus, the rich ornaments accompanying Pakal, and for the stucco sculpture decorating the walls of the tomb. Unique to Pakal's tomb is the psychoduct, which leads from the tomb itself, up the stairway and through a hole in the stone covering the entrance to the burial.
As Janaab Pakal seems to have had no male heirs, she ascended to the throne on 19 October 612, a few months after her father's death. After his maturity, her son Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I succeeded her as ruler on 9.9.2.4.8 5 Lamat 1 Mol. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She seems to have continued to wield considerable influence over Palenque in the early decades of ...
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Pakal (also spelled Pacal; meaning "shield" in several Mayan languages) forms the (common) name or part of the full name of several pre-Columbian Maya personages identified in the monumental inscriptions of sites in the Maya region of Mesoamerica. As such this may also refer to:
Lady Pakal (or Lady Pacal; Mayan Ix Pacal [1]) was a Maya Queen consort of Yaxchilan in Mexico. [ 2 ] [ full citation needed ] It is said that she lived into her sixth k'atun , meaning that she was at least ninety-eight when she died in 705.
Pakal's body was shaped to resemble motifs and images of what the Sun and Maize gods were expected to look like. [12] Evidence of the social hierarchy of the Maya was shown in pottery, figurines, drawings, monuments, and architecture picturing high-status elites with the oblique cranium modification. [ 4 ]