Ajaw

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Ajaw or Ahau /ɑːˈxaʊ/ ('Lord')^[1] is a pre-Columbian Maya political title attested from epigraphic inscriptions. It is also the name of the 20th day of the tzolkʼin, the Maya divinatory calendar, on which a ruler's kʼatun-ending rituals would fall.