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Spearthrower Owl
"Spearthrower Owl" (or Atlatl Cauac) (? – 439 AD) is the name commonly given to a Mesoamerican personage from the Early Classic period, who is identified in Maya inscriptions and iconography. It has been suggested that Spearthrower Owl was a ruler of Teotihuacan at the start of height of its influence across Mesoamerica in the 4th and 5th century, and that he was responsible for the introduction of Teotihuacan-related cultural traits in the Maya area.〔Stuart (1998)〕
==Name==
"Spearthrower Owl" is a name invented by archaeologists basically just describing the visual appearance of the Teotihuacan-originated spear-holding owl symbol stylised as one or two Maya glyphs usually used to represent his name. The symbols themselves are not readable Maya writing, even though inserted among otherwise normal glyphs.
However, in Tikal, the name appears written once as an ordinary Maya glyph compound that can be spelled out. The suggested spelling for the name is ''Jatz'om Kuh'', meaning "owl that will strike".〔Spearthrower Owl Hill: A Toponym at Atatelco, Teotihuacan. Jesper Nielsen and Christopher Helmke. Latin American Antiquity 19(4), 2008, pp. 459-474. See also ''The Updated Preliminary Classic Maya - English, English - Classic Maya Vocabulary of Hieroglyphic Readings'' by Eric Boot. Mesoweb resources 2007.〕 This naturally also looks like a verbal description of the spear-holding owl symbol.
Various logographs or glyphs depicting an owl and a spearthrower are documented in Teotihuacan and in the Maya cities of Tikal, Uaxactun, Yaxchilan, and Tonina. They may or may not refer to the same individual, or have some other symbolic meaning.
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