Bird Claw,The ruler's name, when transcribed is ?-TE'?, Martin & Grube 2008, p.38. also known as Animal Skull I and Ete I (fl. 6th century), 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 ''kʼat ...

'' of the

Maya Maya may refer to: Civilizations * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (Ethiopia), a popul ...

city of

Tikal Tikal () (''Tik’al'' in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. It is one of the largest archeological sites and urban centers of the pre-C ...

. The monument associated with Bird Claw is Stelae 8. He carried a high-ranking name but no Tikal emblem.Martin & Grube 2008, p.39.

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* Rulers of Tikal 6th century in the Maya civilization 6th-century monarchs in North America {{Mesoamerica-stub