Glyph G12 (see note)   --  Schele, 1988 (verbal phrase)   --  Robertson, 1985

Photo: Mark Van Stone   zoom Drawing: Merle Greene Robertson

different lighting

"At Copan on Altar G1, this serpent head refers to the vision serpent. I suspect that it is here because the particular [rite] in which Kan-Xul participated involved bloodletting" (Schele, 1988).