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Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:49:22 +0100

STELA 15

During the 9th century AD A new sculptural format
was developed narrating more than one simultaneous
scene in the monument.
In this stele, the upper box could refer to the ancestors
located in the celestial plane. In the central panel, the
history of a war campaign of a high dignitary, who has
between his legs a decapitated reptile emerging from
a snail; one of the four Pawahtuuno'ob or old gods
guardians of the cardinal points, seems to support it.
The lower scene shows how the winner places the
defeated on the four-lobed portal that will take him to
the underworld.