The Three Stones of Creation

In Quiriguá Stela C contains the date 13.0.0.0.0 (or August 13, 3114 BC). This monument tells us that the Paddler Gods set out three stones of creation as they paddled along the Milky Way, their river to the Underworld. It has been assumed that these locations are only star forms. However, it is possible that they are also earth locations.

The first placed in the House of Five Sky, was called the Jaguar Throne stone (utz'apwa tun uti Na Jo' Chan Jix tz'am? tun-a). The interesting thing about these glyph units is that there is a different type of god head in each section.

The first contains two heads. Both are old men, the first with jaguar ears and a jaguar eye on top of a throne made up of black (a sign of pure ancestry) bones.

The second head contains a mirror on top, a sting ray spine in the nose, and a fish barbel coming out of the mouth. It also has a hook ear similar to the form for water fountain. Just below the water ear, it has two circles attached to a curved line as found in the Onyx bowl. This may indicate, as with the bowl, a water viewing place for the constellations.

The second stone was called Ek'-Na-Yax???? or the Earth-town Snake Throne stone. The two lower signs are ka and ma but do not connect with kab' It has been suggested that the entire group of signs reads lakam, but even with this translation, there are problems.

The second set of glyphs contains three heads. The top head has snaggle teeth, much like a hag fish (called a snake here) and appears to have the same strange teeth as found on the composite serpent at Seibal on Stela 13. The glyph below this odd representation is also an old man with a mirror in his head perched on top of a throne of bundled cloth. To the left of this throne, is a monkey head, again with the two small circles on an (almost) curved line. The monkey is accepted in Maya as the North star. Its presence probably indicates the northern earthly location for the two thrones.

The third stone glyph has the phrase iwal uti k'al tun Na Itzam(ji) ja' tz'am? tun, iwal uti k'a chan Yax Ox Tunal. The translation reads: "and then it happened, he held onto the stone, Na Itzamji, water throne stone, it happened at Closed? Sky, First (or Green) Hearth Place.".

This third set, contain the same monkey head with a normal tooth serpent. The throne in this glyph phrase is again the bundled black bones.

There is also the glyphic phrase that declares Tzutzi oxlajun pi, ukaji Wak Chan Ajaw or "thirteen Pi ended because of the Raised-up Sky Lord." The Paddler gods have accomplished their mission of setting up the three thrones on earth and also locating them in the heavens. The only other personage in these glyphs is Wak Chan Ajaw, who appears to have a rat face. This concept of rat agrees with the black [rat] bone images of the two thrones. One then, must search out the [rat bone] lord who raised up the sky.

It was stated at the XXth Maya Hieroglyphic Forum, held in 1996 that there are Maya glyphs next to Teotihuacán glyphs on the Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copan. Never having seen Teotihuacán/Tollan glyphs, I cannot say if this is a true statement or not, but if it is true, then the source of these glyphs might be the [heart of the rat] god of the North. In this instance God L could be our source.

With these three isolated glyphs, we have an extensive creation statement. The three thrones of earth are as follows: The House Five Sky, Jaguar throne stone, Earth-town, Snake throne stone and "Water throne stone at Closed? Sky, First (or Green) Hearth Place." The thrones are associated with the Jaguar night sky, here probably a major observatory at Copan. Snake throne, on the other hand, might be associated with that of the caves near Tikal, a city North of Copan, or if the serpent is the hag fish, that of an CIA-type organization sent to Tikal/Copan/Quiriguá/ Seibal from the central Teotihuacán/Tollan area. The last stone inscription, Green (or First) Hearth Place, probably can then be associated with a now dormant volcano (hearth) which because of the volcanic soil, has become verdant.

The latter as a northern city could be around Popcatepetl since Popo does have a water throne, commonly known as the city of Tenochtitlán in the center of Lake Texcoco. Near Tenochtitlán was a place called Xlalteloco or "heart of the rat" (it is now part of the railway yards of Mexico City.). This city name is now spelled Tlalteloco.[Noriega, La Despedida, p. 8] and at one time contained a great temple to the God Huitzilopochtli. All Lords who became rulers were investured here wearing a blue mantle embroidered with bones.

The CIA-type government at Seibal did not last more than 50 years even though the city survived another half century. It is only when there is rapid communication that a foreign government based on espionage can survive.