Here is a portrait of Ahkal Mo' Nahb' from the east side of Pakal's Sarcophagus. It is interesting to speculate why he should be the first of the dynastic ancestors depicted here and in the inscriptions on the Sarcophagus lid, while the dynastic founder and the two kings who succeeded him are omitted. Stanley Guenter has suggested that Ahkal Mo' Nahb' I is the first Palenque ruler to bear the Palenque emblem glyph rather than being identified as a lord of Toktan. Guenter conjectures that the original center of Palenque was near the Picota Group, where Ed Barnhart and the Palenque mapping project have found what appears to be a complex of funerary temples similar to the Inscriptions group. Guenter suggests that Ahkal Mo' Nahb' I was the first to move to Lakam Ha', the flat area near the Palace. The next ruler, K'an Joy Chitam I, is associated inscriptionally with a childhood event that took place in Toktan. By Guenter's theory, this would have taken place before Ahkal Mo' Nahb' I moved the royal center. next