"... (It) was made proper, the Raised-up-Sky-Place, the Eight-House-Partitions, (is) its holy name, the house of the north'. In this way we learn that First Father's 'entering the sky' also created a house in the north and that it was made of eight partitions. The name of that house, 'Raised-up-Sky', is the reciprocal opposite of the 'Lying-down-Sky' of the 4 Ahaw 8 Kumk'u place.

'Raised-up-Sky' (Wakah-Chan) is also the name of the World Tree at the center of the panel in the Temple of the Cross.

Moreover, the image of this primordial tree rises out of the original offering plate of sacrifice. Thus we know that the Maya thought of the entire north direction as a house erected at Creation with the World Tree, the Wakah-Chan, penetrating its central axis. First Father 'entered the sky' by raising this tree out of a plate of sacrifice."

"I thought about the image of the World Tree and realized that the Double-headed Serpent that was draped around and through its branches had to be the ecliptic."