 Twelve years earlier he had installed K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat on the throne of Quiriguá as his vassal.By 734 the king of Quiriguá had shown he was no longer an obedient subordinate when he began to refer to himself as "k'ul ajaw", "holy lord", rather than simply as a subordinate lord "ajaw".K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat appears to have taken advantage of wider political rivalries and allied himself with Calakmul, the sworn enemy of Tikal.