This is reinforced by the akbal symbol of death and darkness on the jar behind God L. The image of the Monkey God, known to scholars as God C, is a symbol of ???divinity,??? and when merged with the image of an animal or thing such as a deer or tree, or even a mushroom, it marks the image as ???holy.??? The word K???uh in Classic Mayan glyphs was assigned to the monkey god and in glyphs his monkey