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The text continues with a Distance Number at P6-Q6 that counts forward from the time of K'uk' B'ahlam's birth to his accession, or coronation as ruler. Distance Numbers count how many days, months, years, k'atuns, and sometimes even greater intervals of time are to be added to or subtracted from a given date to arrive at a different date. This particular Distance Number records fourteen days (four dots and two bars), five months (the bar lying horizontally on top of the sign for "month"), two years (the left portion of the next glyph block), and one k'atun (a k'atun being a twenty year period). Thus a total of twenty-two years and 114 days are added to K'uk' B'ahlam's birth (indicated by the "upended frog" at P7) to arrive at the date of his accession. The verb for accession (at Q7) is a "flat hand" holding out two glyphic symbols, the one on the left being the color "white" and the one on the right representing the headband of rulership. "White" is sak in Mayan, and the headband is huun. Sak Huun is the name of the headband. It is also a name of the Jester God, a Maya deity associated with rulership. At P8 is a glyph reading tu 'ub'aah that has been interpreted to mean either that the headband was held for the king (or tied on his head), or that he held (or tied) it himself. At Q8 is the ritual calendar date of the accession, 1 K'an, and at P9 is the solar date 2 K'ayab'. The passage ends with a glyph at Q9 identifying K'uk' B'ahlam as a "Holy Cloud-Center Lord". |