dynasty that would reign for four hundred years. Some of
K’inich Yax’s successors had equally graphic names. The
thirteenth ruler’s glyph translates as “18 Rabbit,” who was
followed by “Smoke Monkey” and then “Smoke Shell,” who
died in AD 763. The last name on the altar is King Yax Pasaj
Chan Yoaat, or “First Dawned Sky Lightening God,” who
was the sixteenth ruler of this line and assumed the thron