 prev - home - next And, finally, here is the individual who is named as dying. This is none other than Jaguar Paw, the king of Tikal. (You can see the spotted jaguar paw with its claws at the bottom of the glyph block.) To review the sense of the text leading up to this, Siyaj K'ak', the powerful representative of Teotihuacan, "arrived" and then "he died, Jaguar Paw". Particularly when coupled with the fact that the next ruler of Tikal was probably a son of the king of Teotihuacan and clearly not of Jaguar Paw, the inference seems inescapable that the first event led directly to the second. It looks very much like the incoming Mexicans killed the ruler of Tikal. |
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