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Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs
This authoritative work is the first visual dictionary of Maya glyphs published since the script's complete deciphering, offering a much-needed, comprehensive catalogue of 1100 secured glyphs. Each entry includes the illustrated glyph, its phonetic transcription, Mayan equivalent, part of speech, and meaning. About the Author John Montgomery was an illustrator, epigrapher, writer, and PhD candidate in the field of Pre-Columbian Art at the University of New Mexico. He taught art history at the South-western Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque. A long and varied experience in Central America first inspired his interest in the ancient Maya. His glyphic illustrations are based on a lifetime of involvement with Maya glyph decipherment.
425 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2002
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March 19, 2016
Jacques Coulardeau at Academia.edu (41)
THE MAYAS
LANGUAGE & DICTIONARY
QUAI BRANLY MUSEUM & MUSIC
LES MAYAS
LANGUE & DICTIONNAIRE
QUAI BRANLY & MUSIQUE
THE MAYAS-LANGUAGE & DICTIONARY-QUAI BRANLY MUSEUM & MUSIC
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1. JOHN MONTGOMERY – DICTIONARY OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS – 2002 - SECOND PRINTING 2006
2. JOHN MONTGOMERY – HOW TO READ MAYA HIEROGLYPHS – 2002
3. MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY – MUSIQUES ET CHANTS – MAYAS – LES AMERINDIENS, PEUPLES MAYA, TOTOMAQUE, CORA – MEXIQUE – FREMEAUX ASSOCIES, 2014
4. MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY – MAYAS, RÉVÉLATIONS D’UN TEMPS SANS FIN – 2014
I am here finding elements that can be connected to many other systems in the world, both languages and rituals. Maya as a language is not an isolate. The point is that the written system is so complex and the calendar calculations are so complicated that we cannot consider they appeared like that, ready to be used in about 1000 BCE and certainly not later.
These systems must have required many milennia to be invented and refined, just like Mayan architecture and Mayan technology capable of producing a durable material medium for their language and stories.
It is the same thing with corn that had to be completely genetically modified to become what we know it is that CANNOT reproduce without a human hand to get the grains out of the husk. And we could speak of their ritualistic beverages that are so complicated that they look like some fine art perfume produced by today's chemical laboratories.
I think here that the Mayan culture, the Aztec culture, the Toltec culture, the Inca culture could not have evolved from a population coming along with the Clovis migration. If it took 5,000 years for the Sumerians to devise their writing system which is child's play when compared to the Mayan system, I believe these Homo Sapiens must have arrived in the Americas before the Ice Age and certainly not late after it. To devise this writing system when the language would have stabilized enough, not to speak of the calendars, the Mayans must have needed at least 15,000 years, probably more.
Except of course if you consider language is a gift from extraterrestrials or angels and gods, which is not within my frame of mind.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
THE MAYAS
LANGUAGE & DICTIONARY
QUAI BRANLY MUSEUM & MUSIC
LES MAYAS
LANGUE & DICTIONNAIRE
QUAI BRANLY & MUSIQUE
THE MAYAS-LANGUAGE & DICTIONARY-QUAI BRANLY MUSEUM & MUSIC
https://www.academia.edu/17222509/THE...
1. JOHN MONTGOMERY – DICTIONARY OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS – 2002 - SECOND PRINTING 2006
2. JOHN MONTGOMERY – HOW TO READ MAYA HIEROGLYPHS – 2002
3. MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY – MUSIQUES ET CHANTS – MAYAS – LES AMERINDIENS, PEUPLES MAYA, TOTOMAQUE, CORA – MEXIQUE – FREMEAUX ASSOCIES, 2014
4. MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY – MAYAS, RÉVÉLATIONS D’UN TEMPS SANS FIN – 2014
I am here finding elements that can be connected to many other systems in the world, both languages and rituals. Maya as a language is not an isolate. The point is that the written system is so complex and the calendar calculations are so complicated that we cannot consider they appeared like that, ready to be used in about 1000 BCE and certainly not later.
These systems must have required many milennia to be invented and refined, just like Mayan architecture and Mayan technology capable of producing a durable material medium for their language and stories.
It is the same thing with corn that had to be completely genetically modified to become what we know it is that CANNOT reproduce without a human hand to get the grains out of the husk. And we could speak of their ritualistic beverages that are so complicated that they look like some fine art perfume produced by today's chemical laboratories.
I think here that the Mayan culture, the Aztec culture, the Toltec culture, the Inca culture could not have evolved from a population coming along with the Clovis migration. If it took 5,000 years for the Sumerians to devise their writing system which is child's play when compared to the Mayan system, I believe these Homo Sapiens must have arrived in the Americas before the Ice Age and certainly not late after it. To devise this writing system when the language would have stabilized enough, not to speak of the calendars, the Mayans must have needed at least 15,000 years, probably more.
Except of course if you consider language is a gift from extraterrestrials or angels and gods, which is not within my frame of mind.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
July 8, 2011
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