[This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.]
CMGG entry for sak baak naah chapaat

Translation: white bone house centipede deity
Part of speech: Noun

Spellings of sak baak naah chapaat

                                                                                            

Grofe-TNoGL (Schele)                                        MHD (Schele)                                           Greene                                                      Graham

PAL T14 B6-A7                                                     PAL T14 F2                                                PAL TS D3-C4                                           YAX Lintel 10 F2a

SAK.<BAAK:ki> NAAH.CHAPAAT                       <SAK:BAAK>.<NAAH:CHAPAAT>          SAK.<BAAK:NAAH> CHAPAAT               SAK:BAAK:NAAH:CHAPAAT

 

·    This forms part of the extended name/title of PAL God-GIII, but appears also in the extended name/title of other historical or mythological figures.

o The two instances in PAL T14 appear to be the name of a way (a spirit companion) of the god K’awiil.

o The instance in PAL TS is part of the very long extended name of God-GIII of the Palenque Triad.

o The instance in YAX Lintel 10 is the name of one of the deities from a list of seven, listed as being worshipped in a single shrine in YAX (or, less likely, part of the name of a single deity, with a very long extended name consisting of 7 parts).

·    MHD statistics (2025-03-29):

o A search in MHD on “blengl contains Sak Baak Nah Chapaht” will produce all known occurrences of this name in MHD.

o It yields 8 hits consisting of 5 distinct occurrences of that name:

§ 6 of the hits are for 3 pairs of adjacent blocks, which is 3 distinct occurrences of the name, spread over 2 glyph-blocks, and

§ 2 of the hits are for the entire name in a single glyph-block, representing 2 distinct occurrences of the name.

·    Of the 5 occurrences of this name in MHD, 4 have a CHAPAAT clearly discernible and 1 has CHAPAAT read by inference. The 4 instances with the clear CHAPAAT are given in the examples above while the example with the inferred CHAPAAT (CRC Stela 23 D1-F1) has been omitted.