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| Let's start with the glyph that is labeled 'OHL in the drawing on the left. A logogram for the word "heart" in the sense of "core", this glyph is distinguished by the circular element on the top and the U-shaped bracket in the middle with two bands or lobes descending from it. These elements are characteristic of the calendric day-sign K'an, hence the appearance of "K'an" or "Kan" in earlier versions of this ruler's name. These same glyphic elements are also characteristic of the month known as Kumk'u in Yukatek Mayan. In the Ch'olan of the inscriptions, this month is called Ohl. That this is the proper reading of the glyph in this case is confirmed by the suffix -la, which signals the final "l". (Since the suffix is disharmonic, we know that the vowel in Ohl probably had the raspy velar sound represented by the letter "h" in the spelling. But the epigraphers are still allowing for the possibility that the vowel might instead be long or reduplicated, as indicated by the spellings Ool and O'ol.) |