Bolon K'awiil II

Not to be confused with Bolon of Macedon or K'awiil Chan K'inich.

Bolon K’awiil 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 K’awiil; 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 K’awiil 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 k'atun—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]

References

  1. ↑ Intermediate Elites in Pre-Columbian States and Empires by Christina M. Elson,R. Alan Covey
  2. ↑ The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition by Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxer
  3. ↑ Braswell, Geoffrey E.; Gunn, Joel D.; Dominguez Carrasco, María del Rosario; Folan, William J.; Fletcher, Laraine A.; Morales López, Abel and Glascock, Michael D. (2005). "Defining the Terminal Classic at Calakmul, Campeche". In Arthur A. Demarest, Prudence M. Rice and Don S. Rice (eds.). The Terminal Classic in the Maya lowlands: Collapse, transition, and transformation. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. pp. 162–194. ISBN 0-87081-822-8. OCLC 61719499.
  4. ↑ The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition by Robert Sharer, Loa Traxler. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 2006.
  5. ↑ Martin and Grube 2000:115
  6. ↑ Martin and Grube 2008:115
  7. ↑ God K’awil
  8. ↑ Taube, Karl, The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan
  9. ↑ Word bolon
  10. ↑ Bruce Love, The Paris Codex: Handbook for a Maya Priest, with introduction by George E. Stuart

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