About Pakal
Pakal was born in aproximately 625ad, he died at an aproximate age of 80 and ruled over the Mayans from a young age of 12. Upon the age of 123 he obtained full maturity and that was shown by circumcision at the age of 12, many Mayan boys went through this process but it was particulary important for Pakal as there was no king, there was only a queen (his mother Lady Sak K'uk"). upon this right of passage he took over the throne. Upon his death Pakal the great was worshiped as a god and said to communicate with his decendents. His body was entoombed within the temple of inscriptions under astone slab with four plugs to lock the slab in place.
The entrance to Pakal's tomb were the stone slab was placed to hold his body for eternity.