What happen if the sounds are inverted? The little glyphs become big versions at left?

Fascinating. Thank you!

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Mayan Culture is the most wonderful to have left such a record of their existence. In Mexico City the Archeological Museum is full of relics of their time in the sun. First time I spent time there I paused for the restroom. I stood in front of the mirror there and saw myself then a series of other images, male, female....it just kept going. There were faces unknown to me. I was NOT ON DRUGS, though I have taken ayahuasca maybe 12 times under the supervision of a medicine man. But I felt at the time it was the power inherent in the tools they used. Also..as an artist, my job is to be an observer where ever I am.

The first time I saw the glyphs I was delighted. They were almost cartoonish being so rounded and pleasant to look at. Thanks for your video showing some of the meaning behind the shapes.

IMO the most distinctive, evocative and beautiful writing system ever devised.

It's like they chose children to draw these out as compared to Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs which seemed much neater.

How did they have the smarts to come up with this, but not to realize that it's an overly complicated mess? ._.

I wonder if there was a Mayan cursive for quicker, more mundane usage?

Whilst watching this it struck me that the walls themselves could be heiroglyphics. Or sentences or words making sentences. A wild but different approach to walls& why they were so shaped and kept in place with granite dust and gold. To ensure long term legibility. Sure they protected from earth quacks but words sentences meaning. Adds some sense. And a different angle for stele etc. worth a glance what?

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Green... like the Yax month description, which entails also Venus... Green Jaguar... I'm hooked Sir...

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I also make demonstrations on Maya Script on my channel. My goal is simply to preserve it and continue its use, whether it be in personal texts, art and most importantly for the descendants of the Maya to have if they desire to do anything with it.

Was there a shorthand version of this script? Being a scribe and taking notes must have been a crazy job. The ancient Egyptians developed a shorthand script for scribes to jot down nots and dictations. I wonder if the Mayans had a similar system.

English still seems simpler. 26 symbols, millions of words.....

Anyone know where I can find out how to spell out “almost” or “jaguar paw” in Mayan script? Iykyk

Thanks for investing time of your life to keep interesting knowledge alive

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I have Reading the Maya Glyphs and it is a fantastic book! I grew up with an intense interest in pre-European America. I never thought the day would come when we would be able to interpret Maya writings. It makes it all the more poignant and infuriating that those ignorant Spanish priests were able to destroy 99% of Mayan writings. What could we have learned from the Maya? We'll never know but we do know they were excellent mathematicians, musicians, poets, writers, astronomers. The most incredible event would be to break the secret of the Incan Kipus. One wonders if we will ever be able to do that.

I have exactly the same pen

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Wow

I mean there are mummified remains of people with these features in the Americas..also, those people didn't grow beards, they only do now because of Spanish admixture, so it would be an odd thing to mention. Mexico school textbooks even show him as a bearded Whi te man today

TI-sa-ja-la-IL In the subordinate lordship he is Q'uq'kumatz.

when you thought writing chinese characters is hard

By observing the way those ancient writings were drawn, it makes you wonder if they actually had fountain or felt tip pens in ancient south America.

Just imagine how much work went into deciphering this script so that we can experience it for ourselves

Very much like the Hopi myth

Very beautiful.

Idk if anyone cares but I was looking at Mayan hieroglyphs the other day and noticed something like some of the hieroglyphs actually looked like the people near the heiroglyphs like as if it was a conversation and it declared who was talking by showing the dots or marks on the person's body in conjunction with the dialect, so you got a idea who was saying what while you were reading it gave you glimpses of patterns and or dots even a small piece of their face so that they were associated with that specific text like how I could say "blah blah blah" said nick. The heiroglyphs where there and it would somehow add my avatar to the phrase. Hopefully someone understood this. It was on the Dresden codex? With the different priests sitting down side profiles, I think it was a story.

Me: *looks through comments to see if anyone else has my name* No srsly is there anybody else here named Maya?

I taught myself the basics of the grammar of classic Maya as well as how the writing system worked during college (long story short I way over-studied for an archaeology essay). Every time I revisit it I’m reminded just how ingenious it is and how beautiful it is. In my opinion no other language is as beautiful when written, not Mongolian, not Manchu, not Georgian, nor even something like Tamil or Tibetan.

Everything on 5, but trick. Because you no colour code

you do understand that hieroglyphs of amercia is the first mahjong and it asian today

Up down left right and center aka forward, the third dimension

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It feels strange calling them hyroglyphs. it works very differntly.

Its so obvious that they lied about almost all indigenous history

This is sort of embarrassing..a large amount of belizeans come from maya decent. Why not just ask the maya people who still exist what their opinion is instead of speculate.

Beautiful characters when written precisely. Were the Maya close to developing a 'layman's alphabet' like Demotic was to Egyptian Hieroglyphics? These characters are elegant, but cumbersome when trying to communicate everyday information. Thanks in advance for any information you can share on my question.

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Reminds me a bit of how Korean is written, but with pictographs

Mark, I am a big fan of your work. I wanted to ask you something. Do you ever translate a single sentence for a fee? It's for an art project I am working on about the Mayan civilization.

Mark you are AWESOME

Hello there. I would like to know what type of pen do you recommend to write Maya Hieroglyphs ? Thanks :)

Sorry but your are lying, the mayan glyphics don't have a phonetic translation,Read Knozorov works,you will learn what is the reality.

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