Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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She's holding all the bloodletting implements in her arms.
Could you zoom in on that?
She's actually holding the bowl with all the stuff in it.
It actually says, there's actually glyphs in it that basically talk about her basically, it being basically on fire, essentially.
There's fire entering, happening in that bowl.
And so another cool thing about her is that she's actually one of the only...
I mean, maybe one of two women in ancient Maya history, in all of ancient Maya history, who called themselves a king.
Not a queen, a king.
So she was, yeah, she was pretty badass.
Basically, yeah.
I mean, she ruled for almost, I think, 50 years.
Like, she was, she...
She basically had a kid.
Women weren't really allowed to accede to office very often as their own ruler at a site, right?
So in her case, she was widowed and her son became king.
Once her son becomes king, she starts making war on his name, right?
But he's like five years old.