Guardian of the maya tree

On a Blood Moon night in the season of rain, she came to Earth from the heart of the universe, Yol Tan, in the place of the Primordial Sea of Fire, K’ak-Nab. Her mother was Ix Tunsel, Lady Star of Creation. She was daughter of Ajaw K’inich Janaab Pakal of the Jaguar Kingdom. 

On the seating of her 15th tuun, she came to wed Ajaw Tz’unun K’inich (Hummingbird Sun), king of Bak Tz’ul (Bone Dog). Our Great Holy Lady provided her king with his B’aah Ch’ok (crown prince). 

At the seating of her first katun (twenty years), she gave to the world a daughter named Jade Moon 1 Rabbit, Kaywak U. The father was Yax K’uh, nacom (general) of King Pakal. He led the siege on Bone Dog but the Kaan warriors of Yuknoom took him captive. Hummingbird Sun sacrificed Lord Nacom Yax K'uh, Precious Owl. 

When Hummingbird Sun traveled the dark road of no return, our Holy Lady tied the three head bands of Bone Dog and took her regnal name Jaguar Blood Moon. Then did she scatter drops of her blood. 

On the date 9 baktun 11 katun 16 tun 15 uinal 2 kin our Holy Lady led an entrada to Yax Mutul (Tikal) for the meeting of Red Fire Macaw and Lord Sun (Venus transit of the sun). She conjured two divine queens and they directed Our Lady to pick up the flint and wage war against the Kaan. 

Our Holy Lady returned to Bone Dog victorious, her image was a fiery spear. The god K’awiil cast incense as Jaguar Blood Moon danced the bee dance with her Xux Ek (Wasp Star) banner. She scattered drops of her blood, conjured K’awiil, and saw to the sacrifice of captive lords, kings, and diplomats. 

Jaguar Blood Moon sat in her lordship five tuuns until the son of her harvest, B’aah Ch’ok Tul Til (the crown prince) took the throne with the regnal name Fiery Jaguar Paw. Our Holy Lady severed the bloodline of her son because he allied with the Kaan. The B'aah Ch'ok terminated the resplendent flowery soul of his mother Our Holy Lady. 

Under the thirteenth moon, Second Son of King Pakal and daughter of Our Holy Lady saw to her entombment. On the day Our Holy Lady enters the rainbow road with her flint shield raised, the Celestial Bird breaks clear of the east to frame the brightest section of the Milky Way Tree. The Great Jaguar of Summer brings rain so that our people have plenty to eat. Waterlily Jaguar dances on the day the bones of White Snake fall from the sky and Ix Chel leaves the caverns of Earth to have union with her brother the Sun.

Lady Jaguar Blood Moon is Wi ch’ok ten na, First Mother of her dynastic tree. Her resplendent soul travels beyond the stars and ascends the Stone Jaguar Throne. Her descendants are her harvest, B’a ch’o-ko, the root sprouts of her Tree. Through them she continues to live and rule. The god K’awiil Smoking Axe initiates Ta Ochle, the bloodline heir who “enters the tree” and becomes guardian of Our Lady’s Tree (te) and keeper of the codex (jun) she bears upon her chest.

Her beloved daughter Kaywak U is Ya koknam wa te, first keeper of lineage tree. Each year on the date her spirit departed, Ta Ochle worship at her cave shrine waybil and cast away demons and conjure good spirits to receive bounteous harvest from “She who Sustains Our World.” Our Holy Lady will eternally rule with the rain god Red Chaac, he who resides at the Place where the Maize God is reborn. 

· Ch’ok Te’na, Sprout the Tree upon which you live

· Do penance (pierce the heart) and sacrifice blood in tribute to the itz k’uh, the essence of life 

· Unburden the spirit of impurities

· Receive K’awiil and pray: Lord Sky Kawiil, divine keeper of the sacred lineage, guardian of the scepter and bloodline, awaken revelations, the source of itz k’uh, holy essence 

She of many battles pleases many gods. When Ta Ochle honor Our Holy Lady at her tomb, she summons First Father to oversee the milpas. She invokes Chaac to make possible the harvest, declare war, and speak of omens. She calls upon Lord Sun, the Goddess of Rainbows, and the Heart of Sky beyond Ek’ way-nal (the black hole of transformation) and she calls upon her patron goddess Blood Moon and Grandmother Xmucane, Mother of Maize God Reborn. 

To those unholy who have not “entered the tree” but dare enter my tomb not when the zenith sun marks my flight to heaven, I lay this curse upon you. 

Bats, wasps, and demons, the Twelve Lords of Death and Destruction, shall fly from the maws of my tomb and bring sickness, starvation, pain, and death upon you and your progeny. 

I shall call upon Camazotz, the death bat monster, Hum Hau, death god, Cizin, death god. Zipacna. Vucub caquix (7 macaw). B’a Ajaw, head lord of hell, Hun Came, One Death. Flying Scab and Cuchumaquic, father of Blood Moon, will poison you and your harvest. Ahal puh, Puss Demon and Ahalgana, Jaundice Demon will make your body swell and rot into a pile of bones. Demons will find you and cause you to cough blood along whatever road you travel.