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The next known Palenque ruler has in his name glyph a quetzal bird as the 'Main Sign': the word for quetzal in Chol is kuk . Thompson (1962: 326-328) includes both quetzals and macaws (possibly parrots also) under his glyph T744. The quetzal head mainly belongs within theT744a category: our kuk head is in fact Thompson's T744a type glyph. It was Lord Kuk who had the Tablet of the 96 Glyphs inscribed. It is to two men in particular that this paper owes its existence: to Lord Kuk for having his tablet inscribed with the accession dates of so many of his predecessors and to Heinrich Berlin, who first realized (1970a) its tremendous importance in the sequence of rulers at Palenque.
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