| | Reports Submitted to FAMSI - Kerry Hull |
 | | One of the more poignant couplets the corpus of Maya hieroglyphic writing appears on the East Panel of the Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque. |
 | | This devastating moment in the history of Palenque is memorialized in the couplet satay kuhul ixik, satay ajaw, "lost is the divine lady, lost is the lord." Translations of this phrase usually interpret the root sat to mean "lost" (see Martin and Grube 2001:161). |
 | | (It should be noted that I still think this needs further confirmation as a separate discourse marker, but all indications now are that this is precisely its function in these contexts). |
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