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Long live the queen!
Little has been talking to lady K’abal Xook, queen consort of Yaxchilan who ruled between the years 681 to 742. It was one of the women most important of the political maya of the classic period.
The lady K’abal Xook is one of the few women who was immortalized in lintels maya, seems to have been a queen very revered and respected throughout the maya area. Thanks to the lintels were carved in his honor we know how to engage women in mayan ceremonies of high rank.
It is the only queen known that he had a palace dedicated to his name and image. The maya engaged in each of his temples to the gods, there are only two palaces dedicated to women and one of them was to name the big lady K’abal Xook. In the publication we can see:
1. Lady K’abal Xook having a vision, after participating in a ceremony of blood.
2. Lady K’abal Xook delivering a helmet in the form of a jaguar to her husband Itzamnaaj B’alam II
3. Lady K’abal Xook in trance, participating in a blood ritual
4. The location of the temple 23, house of the lady K’abal Xook
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