Their contract was made after Kinich located a sealed Ajaw underneath some ruins in Natlan. Despite his recognition for Ajaws evil intentions, the two of them came to an agreement by which Kinich ...

All these conclusions fit with identifying the body as that of Pakal’s wife, Ix Tz’akb’u Ajaw, who came to Palenque from a nearby city to marry Pakal in the year 626. If the tombs of her ...

"Kinich is nice, but that Ajaw is really hard to be around. Speaking of, where did Ajaw even come from? If he originated from some kind of device, then there is actually a chance that I could make ...

Sak Tz’i’ monarchs bore the title ajaw (“lord”), a step below mightier kings’ k’uhul ajaw (“holy lord”). But, as The New York Times noted in a 2022 article on Golden and Scherer’s work, Sak Tz’i’ ...

This flat stone monument, which stands on a pyramid at the Maya site of Piedras Negras in northwestern Guatemala, shows Lady K'atun-Ajaw, Namaan-Ajaw seated cross-legged on a throne. Her three ...

Early on May 23, the zenith day, Montero had gone to the central pyramid and discovered that the sun, K’inich Ajaw, rises in line with the pyramid’s northeast corner. It then sets in line with ...

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Although known as Lady Six Sky since scholars first began deciphering Maya glyphs in the 1960s, recent epigraphic work has translated her Maya name, Ix Wak Jalam Chan Ajaw Lem, more precisely as ...

Wherever Kinich is, Ajaw follows and that’s because of the bond the two of them are chained by. The so-called ‘mighty’ K’uhul Ajaw seems to be a relic from the era of the dragons and dates ...