| It is noteworthy that this celebration of the ninth bak'tun happened at Toktan. Like K'uk' B'ahlam I, Casper was a "Holy Cloud Center Lord." The transition from the from the last day of the eighth bak'tun to the "seating" of the ninth bak'tun on the date 9.0.0.0.0 was the most important period ending in the Maya Classic. (The left glyph block above is read 9 PIK, b'olon pik, the Mayan for 9 bak'tuns. The right glyph block is to-ko-TAN-na, with the syllables in the proper order to spell Toktan.) |