Ebert&Prager-BYK.p28.fig2-1a Ebert&Prager-BYK.p28.fig2-1b Ebert&Prager-BYK.p28.fig2-1c Ebert&Prager-BYK.p32.fig2-8
PAL HS H10 DresdenCodex p60b D1 ALS Stela 9 E6 PAL T-XIV Tablet
9.<<yo?.OK>:TE’> 9 OK.TE’ 9.K’UH.OK[TE’] <u:KAB:[ji]ya>.9:<OK[TE’].K’UH>
Ebert&Prager-BYK.p28.pdfp1fig2-1d Ebert&Prager-BYK..p28.fig2-1e Ebert&Prager-BYK.p30.fig2-4 Ebert&Prager-BYK.p31.fig2-5
Unpublished plate (after Stuart) PAL TI WT P1 MAR Stela 1 B11 K2796 (Vase of the Seven Gods)
9.<<yo.OK>:TE’>.K’UH 9.<<OK.K’UH>:TE’> 9.K’UH.<OK:TE’> 9.<OK:TE’>
Stuart-MoTM6.p1.fig1 Ebert&Prager-BYK.p29.fig2-3 K1398 (The Rabbit and God-L) C4-D4
TRT Monument 6 O5b Usumacinta region mayavase.com
9:OK:TE’ 9.<OK:TE’> 9.OK{TE’} K’UH
· This god’s name is “fossilized” in the English rendition. According to modern insights it should probably be Balun (Y)okte’ K’uh.
· Ebert&Prager-BYK is a paper which is devoted to discussing this god.
· Ebert&Prager-BYK.p28.pdfp1:
o The meaning “numerous strides” was assigned by Thompson – it is obscure and should be treated as tentative.
o He is a god associated with war, periods of transition, and the underworld.
o References are made to him dating from 250 AD to 1800 AD.
o There is variation between Yok and Ok, and the presence or absence of K’uh, but they are correlated: there is a general tendency that it’s Ok when K’uh is absent, and Yok when K’uh is present (suggesting that the name means strides of the deity); however, there appear to be examples with K’UH without yo and vice versa.
· The labelling of the sub-parts of Ebert&Prager-BYK.p28.fig2-1 is incorrect – the drawings labelled “a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, “e” should actually be associated with the sources given as “e”, “a”, “b”, “c”, “d” – I have adjusted the labels accordingly, in the examples here.
· From the iconography of MAR Stela 1 and the unprovenanced stela from the Usumacinta region it can be seen that one distinctive characteristic of this deity is a rope around the neck with one loose end dangling down to about waist height (at the front of the body).
· It is part of the name phrase of K’inich Janaab Pakal – Ebert&Prager-BYK.p29.pdfp2: K'inich Janaab' Pakal wears the same title six days later on the West Tablet of the Temple of Inscriptions (glyph P1).
· Grofe-TNoGL is a paper which puts forward the theory that Bolon (Y)okte’ K’uh is the name of God-L.
· K1398 is referred to in two papers: Grofe-TNoGL.p1-2 and Beliaev&Davletshin-lSNylPO.p38. However, the labelling of the two pairs of columns in Beliaev&Davletshin-lSNylPO.p38 is slightly confusing. In the extracted photo Beliaev&Davletshin-lSNylPO.p38.fig2, the first two columns are transcribed as C-D, and the next two columns are transcribed as A-B. Also, this black and white photograph is very difficult to use, and the colour version available from other sources is much more legible.
· K2796 is mentioned in Ebert&Prager-BYK, but only the Bolon Okte’ is given in the example. On the vase itself, K’uh follows in the next glyph-block.
· Sim:
o His association with periods of transition is why he appears in connection with the 13.0.0.0.0 Bak’tun period end on TRT Monument 6.
o His association with war ties in with his representation in the iconography as having a rope tied around his neck – a symbol of the taking of captives for sacrifice, during a war.
· Do not confuse Bolon Okte’ K’uh (a supra-regional god) with Uhx Bolon Chaak (a god local to PAL only).