Although being the first one in Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil's series of monumental masterpieces, Stela C is of the most detailed and beautifully rendered works in the whole Plaza. Shown here is the monument's western side, which depicts the king perhaps performing a ritual act at the time of either the erection of the stela or the closing of the fourteenth k'atuun, which was the reason for commissioning the work. The unusual fact that this monument has two representations of the king (one on the east face -see photo #26- and the other one on the west one), in effect having the king look both to the east and to the west, may have astronomical associations. It might be worth noting that the fourteenth k'atuun period-ending marked the first appearance of Venus as Eveningstar.