And what of the occasion depicted in the stucco panel? It seems that K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb' wanted his son to enact a ceremony just as he himself had so memorably done. "Shield of the Sun God" might well have been about sixteen years old, just as his father had been twenty years earlier. So "Shield of the Sun God" officiated at three different ceremonies tied to the k'atun ending. And the third of these was on the exact anniversary of his father's event recorded in Temple XVIII. |
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