Yaxchilan - Lintel 24 

  Yaxchilan - Lintel 24 from Structure 23
Depicts a bloodletting ceremony held on October 26, 709 CE.
King Itzamnaaj B’alam holds a torch over Lady K’ab’al Xook, his
wife.  She is pulling a barbed rope through her tongue.
November 26, 2018
British Museum, London, England



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