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Symbolic “One-Leggedness”: Pacal as Tezcatlipoca
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
Abstract
It is suggested that the portrayal of a Maya ruler as lame represents a transformation to the god Tezcatlipoca, sometimes known as "one leg." God K of the manikin scepter is a continued reference to this transformation in Late Classic times.
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