Also, the Tablet of the 96 Hieroglyphs strongly suggests that there was no dynastic sidestep such as that which occured when Pacal the Great followed his mother as ruler and the patriline shifted to the house of his father. Pacal saw the need to compensate for this by the equation of his mother with Lady Beastie, the mother of the gods, in the inscriptions of his funeral monument. And K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb' III suggests a relationship between his mother and Lady Beastie on the Temple XVIII Jambs.

The mother of K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb' III from the Temple XVIII Jambs. The glyph is broken on the left - the number "one" is missing. K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb' seems to be saying that a first incarnation of his mother was a companion in mythological time to Lady Beastie, the mother of the gods (Robert Wald, unpublished manuscript, 1999; Linda Schele, "The Demotion of Chac-Zutz'"). (Photo: Mark Van Stone.)