Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik,The ruler's name, when transcribed is bu-tzʼa-ja-SAK-chi u'', translated "Smoking White/Resplendent Coati?". also known as Manik, (November 15, 459 – 501?), was an ''

ajaw Ajaw or Ahau ('Lord') is a pre-Columbian Maya civilization, Maya political title attested from epigraphy, epigraphic inscriptions. It is also the name of the 20th day of the ''tzolkʼin'', the Maya divinatory calendar, on which a ruler's ''kʼatu ...

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Maya Maya may refer to: Ethnic groups * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Mayan languages, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (East Africa), a p ...

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Palenque Palenque (; Yucatec Maya: ), also anciently known in the Itza Language as Lakamha ("big water" or "big waters"), was a Maya city-state in southern Mexico that perished in the 8th century. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC to ca. 799 AD ...

. He took the throne on July 28, 487, reigning until 501. He was likely the brother of Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I.These are the dates indicated on the Maya inscriptions in Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, Born: 9.1.4.5.0 12 Ahaw 13 Sak and Acceded: 9.2.12.6.18 3 Etzʼnab 11 Xul.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Butz Aj Sak Chiik Monarchs of Palenque 459 births 500s deaths 6th-century monarchs in North America