Sky Witness was a ruler of the Maya city and major cultural center of

Calakmul Calakmul (; also Kalakmul and other less frequent variants) is a Maya civilization, Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche, deep in the jungles of the greater Petén Basin region. It is from the Guatemalan border. Calakmul w ...

, also known as Kaan. He took the rulership some time prior to the year 561, and led Kaan into a war with rival

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 ...

city-state

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 archaeological sites and urban centers of the Pre-Col ...

(also known as Mutal), winning a major victory in 562 which broke Mutal's formerly extensive power in the southern

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for some decades.

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Kings of Calakmul 6th-century Maya people 6th-century monarchs in North America {{Mesoamerica-stub