These glyphs were associated with different alphabets and numbers.Mayans glyphswere either in the form of logograms, which were used to express meaning, or syllabograms, which were used to denote sound values. A very important form of Mayan glyphs was the“emblem glyph”which is a kind of ...
Kekchí, Mayan Indians of central Guatemala, living in damp highlands and lowlands of irregular terrain. The Kekchí raise corn and beans as staple crops. These are planted together in plots that are burned off and then worked with digging sticks. Sexual taboos and fertility rituals are associat...
Probably the most exciting breakthrough in this book is her identification of the astronomical meaning of the Mayan Sacred Tree. Drawing from an impressive amount of iconographic evidence, and generously sharing the process by which she arrived at her discovery, the Sacred Tree is found to be ...
In addition to using cacao and liquid chocolate as currency, the ancient Mayan and Aztec cultures understood its medicinal properties. They drank chocolate mixed with liquid from the bark of the silk cotton tree to help relive stomach and intestinal problems, and to cure infections. Other ancient ...
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early 16th century recognized that there was a flourishing religious practice among the Maya dedicated to 'aixchel' or 'yschel'. The local men denied knowing the meaning of the goddess; but she was a deity of the Chontal, Manche Chol, Yucatec, and Pocomchi groups in the early colonial ...
Around 250 of the approximately 350 signs of the Dresden Codex have been decoded. Most of them refer to the accompanying figures. They comment on the images in short phrases. There are also numbers, consisting of bars (meaning "five"), dots (meaning "one") and stylized shells (meaning "...
His association with the feathered serpent is an interesting story. The quetzal bird, native to the western area of Guatemala and Mexico, was regarded as the most beautiful bird and called Quetzaltotolin, meaning "most precious". The symbol of the feathered serpent was Quetzalcoatl, meaning not...
From time to time, other fragments of Mayan drawings of this period have also been found. The Dresden Codex contains the highest amount of astronomical observations and calculations of any of the surviving pre-Columbian texts. There are also nine writings called Chilam Balam (meaning "oracular ...
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