The temple faces onto the West Court within the Acropolis and is dedicated to K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo', the dynastic founder.

The dynastic founder of the Tang dynasty, Li Yuan, was from Taiyuan.

In the inscriptions he is styled as the 29th ruler of the dynastic succession, counted from the dynastic founder.

Dapunta Hyang Sri Jayanasa was the first Maharaja of Srivijaya and thought to be the dynastic founder of Kadatuan Srivijaya.

The dynastic founder of Tikal, Yax Ehb' Xook, has been linked to this tomb, which lies deep in the heart of the North Acropolis.

That landmark survey also mixed art and political history around the central figure of a dynastic founder.

Adherents of this proposal consider Harald Hardråde to be the actual dynastic founder.

In retrospect, the dynastic founder, Harrison Gray Otis, seems a faintly comic figure-pompous, scheming, perpetually enraged, festooned with outlandish military pretensions.

A 'Melon-Head' Mao was a classic dynastic founder, and Mr. Deng was a strong ruler too.

The dynastic founder, Tughril Beg, turned his army against the Ghaznavids in Khorasan.