satay k'u, stay ahaw, ma u nawah ... ma y ak'wah u tutal 'lost are the gods, lost are the kings, he does not adorn ... he does not give the offering ...'. This text refers in the rhetoric of a K'atun prophecy to the dark age of Palenque after various raids. Temple of the Inscriptions, East Tablet, O6-O12 (Drawing by Linda Schele).

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