ANTH 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Yaxun B'Alam Iv, Teoberto Maler, Lady Xoc
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Yaxchilan shield jaguar, bird jaguar iv, and wives. 1883 alfred maudsley: made casts of lintels. Yaxchilan comes from maler yax = green stone, chilan = scattered about. Cleft sky sign in the yax emblem glyph = most important. Most famous for architecture and hieroglyphics (describe yax ruler histories) archaeologists being able to identify dynastic chronology. Rise to power 681 ad (34 years old) Transformed the city with grand buildings, intricate lintels, stelae, hieroglyphic stairs. Lintel = lady xoc helping sj dress for battle. Three wives: lady ik" skull evening star mother of bj, lady xoc. Bled every month without dying (link to the cosmos) Penis perforation ( penis wounds ) to resemble natural power of females. Depicted performing blood rituals (lintel 24 = bloodletting, lintel 25 = bringing forth chapaat and yax leader) Part of lintel 23 (inside) depicts her geneology. Contains a skeleton thought to be lady xoc.
