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Three days later, according to the inscription, the Founder left the building named with the distinctive crossed-bands glyph. And 152 days after that, as explained by Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube in Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' "arrived" at Copán. It is conceivable that the earlier events happened in Teotihuacan itself.

Here we see the crossed-bands glyph over the sign for "tree" and to the left of the sign for "structure". The right-hand glyph block contains the name of K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo', with the symbol on the left side being k'inich and that on top of the bird's head being yax. The bird combines the crest feathers of a quetzal, k'uk', with the dotted eye-markings of a macaw, mo'. Photo: Joel Skidmore.