B'alam, Balam, Balaam, B'ahlam, Bahlam, Bahlum or Bolom may refer to:
In Maya history and culture
* A Maya language name for "
jaguar"; see
Jaguars in Mesoamerican cultures
The representation of jaguars in Mesoamerican cultures has a long history, with iconographic examples dating back to at least the mid-Formative period of Mesoamerican chronology.
The jaguar (''Panthera onca'') is an animal with a prominent assoc ...
Maya rulers
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Itzamnaaj B'alam
Itzamna () is, in Maya mythology, an upper god and creator deity thought to reside in the sky. Itzamna is one of the most important gods in the Classic and Postclassic Maya pantheon. Although little is known about him, scattered references are pre ...
(r. ca. 697), ruler of Dos Pilas (a.k.a. "Shield Jaguar")
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Itzamnaaj B'alam I (r. ca. 4thC ?), ruler of Yaxchilan (a.k.a. "Shield Jaguar I")
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Itzamnaaj B'alam II
Itzamnaaj Bʼalam II was a Mayan king who ruled in Yaxchilan. Experts usually date his reign between the end of the 6th century and the beginning of the 7th century, around 599 or even until around 610. Very little is known of him. He is also cal ...
(r. 647–742), ruler of Yaxchilan (a.k.a. "Shield Jaguar II (the Great)")
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Itzamnaaj B'alam III (r. 769—800?), ruler of Yaxchilan (a.k.a. "Shield Jaguar III")
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Kan B'alam I (r. 572—583), ruler of Palenque
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Kaloomte' B'alam (r. ca. 511—527), 19th dynastic ruler of Tikal (a.k.a. "Curl Head")
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Kayb'il B'alam (r. early 16thC), Postclassic ruler of the Mam Maya people of the northern Guatemalan highland region at the time of the Spanish conquest
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K'inich Kan B'alam II (r. 683—702), ruler of Palenque, son of K'inich Janaab' Pakal ("Pacal the Great")
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K'inich K'uk B'alam II (fl. c. 765), ruler of Palenque
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K'uk' B'alam I (r. 431—435), ruler of Palenque and founder of the state's dynastic line
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Yopaat B'alam I (r. 359—?), ruler of Yaxchilan, founder of the state's dynastic line
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Yopaat B'alam II (r. ca. 749), ruler of Yaxchilan
Maya polities and archaeological sites
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B'alam (Maya polity), a Classic-era Maya state, known from inscriptions but whose location is not determined
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Balamdzay, archaeological site in the
Puuc region
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Balamku
Balamku is a small Maya archaeological site located in the Mexican state of Campeche.Rodríguez Campero 2008, p. 437. It features elaborate plaster facades dating to the Early Classic period. It has one of the largest surviving stucco friezes in ...
, archaeological site in central Yucatán Peninsula
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Balamtun, archaeological site in the Petén Basin region
Other uses in Maya culture
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Na Bolom, a non-profit foundation for the advancement of the indigenous Maya peoples of Chiapas, Mexico
Arts and media
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''Balam'' (magazine), a magazine of Latin American photography based in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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''Balam'' (1949 film), a 1949 Hindi film
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''Balam'' (1969 film), a 1969 South Korean film
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''Balam'' (2009 film), a 2009 Tamil romantic drama film
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Balamory
''Balamory'' is a British live-action children's programme on BBC One, BBC Two and CBeebies for pre-school children, about a fictional small island community off the west coast of Scotland, named ''Balamory''. Four series were produced between ...
, a British children's show
Other people
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Balam (singer)
Kazi Md. Ali Jahangir, famously known as Balam, (born 24 December 1976) is a Bangladeshi singer, guitarist, composer, and music producer. He was born in Dhamaron village in Tongibari Upazila of Munshiganj (Bikrampur) district. He used to be the l ...
, Bangladeshi singer and composer
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Balaam
Balaam (; , Standard ''Bīlʿam'' Tiberian ''Bīlʿām'') is a diviner in the Torah ( Pentateuch) whose story begins in Chapter 22 of the Book of Numbers (). Ancient references to Balaam consider him a non-Israelite, a prophet, and the son o ...
, a prophet in the Torah
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David D. Balam, Canadian astronomer
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Richard Balam, mathematician
Other uses
* Asteroid
3749 Balam
3749 Balam is a stony Flora asteroid and rare trinary system orbiting in the inner regions of asteroid belt. It also forms a secured asteroid pair with sub-kilometer sized asteroid . ''Balam'' was discovered on 24 January 1982, by American as ...
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Balam, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
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Balam (demon), in Judeo-Christian tradition
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