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Download Chapter xperts acknowledge that death is then filled and sealed. Masons covered century, but probably less than that. Chapter 6 a process, not an event. In some the altar and crypt with a low, step-up The El Diablo sector itself seems to cases, it begins with discomfort platform. The final steps at this stage, have been in the middle of a building Eand disorientation, a somnolent state at doubtless planned from the start, were spurt, accompanied by ritual interments times jagged with pain (Nuland 1993). the far bolder constructions of the of buildings, when all such activity Then comes clinical death. From a po- Temple of the Night Sun. Eventually suddenly ceased (Román Ramírez 2011). DeathComestotheKing tentially reversible condition, it passes the smaller, simpler Shrine rose above The reasons for this are obscure, yet they to a biological demise from which there the tomb itself. As proposed in Chapter may have included a severe blow to the is no return. Decay sets in. Under harsh 5, the Temple and the Shrine were ruling family or a marked translation of Stephen Houston circumstances, after rotting and reduc- at once mortuary, calendrical, and royal activity to the lower landscape of tion to bone, the corpse becomes noth- accession-related. El Zotz, where new tombs and mortuary Sarah Newman ing at all, at most a faint stain in the soil. Despite the effort that went into its pyramids were constructed during the Other than the problem of embalming or construction and elaboration, however, final years of the Early Classic period. Edwin Román preparing the body in its tropical clime, the Temple soon proved unstable. Its That the occupant of the tomb was however, such physical facts of death over-heavy stucco, poorly attached to a ruler is highly probable. The architec- Thomas Garrison are less relevant to Burial 9 than the sus- masonry, cracked and slid off. It seems tural investments described in Chapter tained actions or ritual pauses reflected probable that successors at El Diablo 2 and the mortuary furniture reported in the tomb. had insufficient access to a talented in Chapter 3 leave little doubt of his Burial 9 provides strong evidence of sculptor capable of repairing the dam- singular importance. What continues mortuary preparation and its sequelae. age. A raised floor level, bringing the to frustrate is the absence of glyphic The motivation, a royal death, could Temple to the level of the main El Diablo evidence for the ruler’s identity. Tiny not have been surprising for an older, plaza, posed new problems of drainage. glyphs on the back of his hematite mir- arthritic male, even if the passing was This was only slightly deterred by thin ror tantalize, but reveal almost nothing sudden. His successors soon com- berms and narrowed doorways to keep other than a probable tag of possession. missioned an open cavity to receive water out. The first phase of the Temple An early lord of El Zotz is mentioned the body. Defined by plastered walls, was also off-kilter, prompting efforts— in Stela 2 of Bejucal, position B6, ca. AD this chamber lay within an elevated awkward ones—to buttress its shifting 381—the name is much like those of platform. In front, at waist height, bulk. Such improvisations were insuf- later kings, CHAK-FISH-DOG [otter?]- stood a theomorphic altar. Still thick ficient, and, after an episode of intense AHK—and the dates are congruent with with waxy residue, its top served as a burning, builders encased the whole the approximate age of the tomb (Figure place for burning incense and making within the tidier phases of Strs. F8-1-2nd 6.2). sacrifices. How long it took to complete and F8-1-1st. Most likely, this episode of The presence of a stylized “ojo these offerings is unknown. Perhaps partial destruction was a ritual necessity, de reptil” on one ceramic object (see burial required an auspicious day set done by locals, consistent with the Chapter 3) offers compelling evidence by calendrical or celestial conditions. studied mutilation of the noses, mouths, that the date of Burial 9 occurred close Some lag could also have been practical. and diadems of the Temple’s cornice to or just after the so-called Teotihuacan Time was needed to assemble goods stuccoes, though it might have come “entrada” of January 15, AD 378 (Martin or to invite distant guests; other delays from an attack on such a prominent and Grube 2008[2000]:29-31). Karl Taube arose from the grim tasks of finding building and dynastic shrine. At this (personal communication, 2014) has also infants and small children to accompany later stage, Str. F8-1 was no longer an observed that the interments of children the deceased or hacking at adult slaves assemblage of distinct shrines and and infants in ceramic vessels strongly or war captives for their fingers, toes, multiple entrances and exits, but a recall a practice known at Teotihuacan and teeth. These body parts found their single chamber with what appears to (e.g., Sempowski and Spence 1994:248- way into caches placed before and after have been simpler iconography. The 249). What can be said is this: the tomb the interment. Meanwhile, the body ambitious programs of the Temple of dates to the final quarter of the fourth was slathered with red paint, perhaps the Night Sun seem not to have been century AD, and it correlates roughly padded with textiles or some other replicable. Later architects may have with momentous changes in the central perishable material. Presumably, along been no longer willing to invest heavily Maya Lowlands. There is no earlier ruler with the removal of abdominal organs, in its ornament or, perhaps, that outlay attested with any firmness in the glyphic this retarded putrefaction or diminished went into frontal masks that remain record. Most likely, but not certainly, odor, although there were likely to only as ruined outsets to either side of the tomb held a dynastic founder. The have been more esoteric reasons for this the structure’s front stairway. Scattered Temple of the Night Sun was clearly of bundling and application of viscous visitors came at a later date, but the con- intense interest to the royal family for specular hematite and sprinkling of struction and use of the pyramid must several generations, perhaps mentioned powdered cinnabar. The tomb was have been relatively brief—perhaps a as far away as Tikal, on Tikal Stela 31 Figure 6.1. Mask 2 from Burial 9 ruler’s chest. Photo: Tessa de Alarcon. 2312015 InDeath Temple Comes of the Night to the Sun: King A Royal Tomb at El Diablo, Guatemala, by Stephen Houston, Sarah Newman, Edwin Román, and Thomas Garrison, pp. 230-233. Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, San Francisco. (glyph H5). There, in what appears to be disproportionate to most other people a toponymic statement, a location linked in their kingdoms. The bundles of cloth to the Jaguar God of the Underworld is and balls of hematite were likely placed mentioned at approximately the same in the tomb in the same way that they time as the active period of the Temple would have been packaged for long- (Figure 6.3). That it refers to El Diablo, distance trade, reflecting the ruler’s drenched with such imagery and place at the pinnacle of the economic likely visible from Tikal, seems a strong landscape. possibility. In any case, the overall The Exemplary Dancer. Mortuary pattern of El Zotz accorded with solar furniture in the tomb is not only about alignments that centered on the Temple abundance or visual effects, but also (see Chapter 1), though the chronology concerns sound and performance. The of the Early Classic at El Zotz is too jade celts and Conus shells with tinklers unclear to posit an exact, year-by-year of dog teeth—even the large Spondylus staging of these developments. shells had small beads to strike their The Diablo tomb can be understood surface—correspond to the dress worn by sequence, as above. But, in final by royal dancers in images of the analysis, it represents varied proposi- Classic period. tions about kingship and a normative In short, the tomb contained Figure 6.5. Emergent solar disks from the Codex Nuttall, p. 21; summation of royal roles: someone who kills, consumes, ac- British Museum. Photo: Trustees for the British Museum, ET The Great Sacrificer. An attribute of cumulates, and performs, a checklist Am1902, 0308.1, Add. Mss. 39671. rulers is their authority and ability to of behaviors thought suitable for those enforce the ultimate sanction, that of claiming kingship. Yet, from a broader too, with the emergence of solar disks above streaming bands (Figure taking human life for reasons perceived perspective, the link is to a far grander Figure 6.2. Bejucal Stela 2 passage (glyphs 6.5; Boone 2000:99; Hamman 2002:Fig. 4; Pohl 2005:114). Marked to be legitimate. The bodies of infants, statement: that the ruler participated B6-B7), with name highlighted. Drawing: by stars, a celestial enclosure or place of emergence hovers directly small and vulnerable, along with parts in cosmic cycles. Various bowls in Stephen Houston. above. Such themes play out equally in the Arroyo Group at Mitla, of adults, went into the tomb and the tomb attest to celestial beings of Oaxaca, whose Postclassic paintings commemorate the foundation of deposits nearby. The right hand of the the sun on cosmic journeys. Monkeys “leading kingdoms” (Pohl 2005:112). The announcement is that “solar principal occupant likely held an obsid- bellow as harbingers of the dawn, cycling…interconnect[s]…with notions of place and production, self ian object that sawed and mangled while Old Gods blend into turtles that and community” (Hamman 2002:Note 5; see also Hanks 1990:353-355; bone (see Appendices I and II).
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