K'awiil emerges from the gaping jaws of the Vision Serpent during royal bloodletting rituals, the lightning deity stepping through the serpent portal to manifest divine power before the king.
In Classic Maya monumental art, the Vision Serpent rises alongside the Yax Che during royal bloodletting rites, the two cosmic axes converging as smoke and sacred ceiba merge to open a channel between the living and the ancestral dead.
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