Bolon Kʼawiil II explained

Bolon Kʼawiil II was a Maya king[1] [2] of Calakmul (>771-789?>).[3] His monuments are Stelae 57 and 58 in his city.[4]

Stele 88, an AD 751 monument of the just-previous ruler apparently depicting his queen, carries a mention of Bolon Kʼawiil; the same name appears on a block of hieroglyphic stairway recently recovered from Structure 13, dating to just after 751.[5] This is apparently the same Bolon Kʼawiil who erected Stelae 57 and 58 on the east side of Structure 13 to mark 9.17.0.0.0—the end of the seventeenth kʼatun—in 771.[6]

Etymology

This king was named after the principal deity of the Maya royal lines.[7] This was God K, who personifies the lightning axe of the rain deity.[8] Bolon means "nine."[9] [10]

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=Vi_xIeAq7oMC&dq=B%27olon+K%27awiil&pg=PA238 Intermediate Elites in Pre-Columbian States and Empires
  2. The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition by Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxer
  3. Book: Braswell, Geoffrey E. . Gunn, Joel D. . Dominguez Carrasco, María del Rosario . Folan, William J. . Fletcher, Laraine A. . Morales López, Abel . Glascock, Michael D. . 2005 . Defining the Terminal Classic at Calakmul, Campeche . Arthur A. Demarest . Prudence M. Rice . Don S. Rice . The Terminal Classic in the Maya lowlands: Collapse, transition, and transformation . Boulder . . 162–194 . 0-87081-822-8 . 61719499 . https://archive.org/details/terminalclassici00arth/page/162 .
  4. The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition by Robert Sharer, Loa Traxler. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 2006.
  5. [Simon Martin (Mayanist)|Martin]
  6. Martin and Grube 2008:115
  7. http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Families/Family/131303 God Kʼawil
  8. Taube, Karl, The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan
  9. Web site: Word bolon . 2012-12-16 . 2012-12-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121227110158/http://whp.uoregon.edu/dictionaries/mayan/index.lasso . dead .
  10. Bruce Love, The Paris Codex: Handbook for a Maya Priest, with introduction by George E. Stuart

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