The Great Year of the Maya: U Kokan Chan, K'uk' Bahlam I, and Contrived Intervals of the Sidereal Year and the Tropical Year in the Tablet of the Cross, Palenque

The Temple of the Cross Sanctuary Text at Palenque contains a well known series of mythological dates within the west panel that are spatially and thematically distinguished from the historical dates found in the east panel. The mythological text in