Cretan counterpart of Cybele, Mother of the Gods.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kouretes    K'inich Janaab' Pakal (23 March 603 – 28 August 683) was ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque in the Late Classic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology . During a long reign of some 68 years Pakal was responsible for