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	The Mayas
		The culture of the Mayas, however, has little changed from the classic period to the modern period, for Maya culture was largely tribal and rural all throughout the Classic period.
		What distinguishes Classic from post-Classic Maya culture was the importance of urban centers and their structures in the religious life of the Mayas and the extent of literate culture.
		Life for the Mayas did not really change drastically after the decline of their cities, for the cities were central only in their ceremonial life.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM (1920 words)

	Learn more about Hieroglyph in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A hieroglyph is one part of an ideographic writing system that is often found carved in stone.
		Hieroglyphs are regarded as sacred characters to many and are used in what at one time was called "picture writing".
		Examples of hieroglyphs can be found on buildings of the ancient Egyptians, Maya civilization and Aztecs.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /h/hi/hieroglyph.html (143 words)

	maya hieroglyph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		With the decipherment of the Maya script it was discovered that the Maya were one of the few civilizations where artists attached their name to their work.
		As Maya cities spread throughout the varied geography of Mesoamerica, the extent of site planning appears to be minimal; their cities being built somewhat haphazardly as dictated by the topography of each independent location, Mayan architecture tends to integrate a great degree of natural features.
		The Maya writing system (often called hieroglyphics from a vague superficial resemblance to the Ancient Egyptian writing, to which it is not related) was a combination of phonetic symbols and ideograms.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Maya_hieroglyph.html (2520 words)

	UT Feature Story -- Deciphering the Maya: Scholars, students and enthusiasts meet to unravel clues to an ancient ...
		The Maya Meetings are organized by the Center for the History of Ancient American Art and Culture (CHAAAC, a name chosen because of its similarity to the Maya rain god Chaak) in the College of Fine Arts.
		They were created in 1977 as the Maya Hieroglyphic Workshops by the late Linda Schele (pronounced SHEE-lee), a professor in the Department of Art and Art History, who until her death in 1998 was considered the greatest Maya scholar in the world.
		Maya newspapers and publications spell headlines and titles in Maya hieroglyphics as well as roman letters, and children have learned to write their names using the Maya writing system.
	www.utexas.edu /features/archive/2003/mayameet.html (1932 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: A Borderland Colloquy: Altar Q, Copn, Honduras @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lowland Maya councils and banquets were also occasions in which diplomatic parley bracketed off enemies and delineated delicate shadings of prestige among those who belonged: over and again in the art of these cities, kings greet kings, nobles acknowledge royal patrons, and unlikely heirs honor esteemed ancestors.
		Elsewhere in the Maya world, the title its'aat comes to prominence in the monuments and small works of the seventh and eighth centuries, where it is associated with courtly priests and functionaries of nonroyal rank, as well as with supernaturals.
		It is the lowland Maya calligrapher's line- what one scholar aptly calls the "silken thread"-moving across a luminous ground plane.71 The presence of this calligraphic formalism on the vases confirms the Copanecos' acute awareness of the visual idiom of lowland Maya civility and their command of this formalism's technical particulars.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1Y1:75214633&refid=holomed_1 (6366 words)

	Public Anthropology
		Advocates of the screech owl glyph argue that the Ek element is not present in the glyph of the screech owl.
		Beyer believes that for a hieroglyph representing death, the owl would be a suitable object, so the Ek element cannot be used completely as the basis of his belief.
		The Supposed Maya Hieroglyph of the Screech Owl.
	www.publicanthropology.org /Archive/Aa1929.htm (12430 words)

	Giant War
		Newly translated inscriptions at an ancient pyramid in Guatemala suggest that the Maya civilization, at its peak, was dominated by two powerful city-states that engaged in a protracted "superpower" struggle.
		Then, as translations of Maya texts became available beginning in the 1980s, these cities were shown to be capitals of smaller kingdoms that were almost constantly in conflict with one another, but failed to create bigger and more stable states by conquest.
		More important, Maya inscriptions indicated that some kings were "owned" by other kings from bigger and more successful cities or were crowned under the "supervision" of rulers from dominant kingdoms who evidently had established themselves as regional hegemons.
	www.aeroman.de /html/giant_war.html (1353 words)

	"Stela 3, Seibal, Peten Jungle of Guatemala dated 28 June 810 AD, Guatemala Museum of Anthropology, Guatemala City"
		Maya polychrome from Tikal, Guatemala - ©D.
		Maya hieroglyphs panel from Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico - ©D.
		Pacal, ruler of Palenque, Maya - ©D.
	www.ddbstock.com /largeimage/mayaartif.html (993 words)

	Maya Hieroglyphs Recount "Giant War"
		Then, as translations of Maya texts became available beginning in the 1980s, these cities were shown to be capitals of smaller kingdoms that were almost constantly in conflict with one another, but failed to create bigger and more stable states by conquest.
		More important, Maya inscriptions indicated that some kings were "owned" by other kings from bigger and more successful cities or were crowned under the "supervision" of rulers from dominant kingdoms who evidently had established themselves as regional hegemons.
		Federico Fahsen, an expert in the interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs, said the text carved into the staircase of a pyramid at Dos Pilas in Guatemala is unusual because it documents not only the city's triumphs but also its setbacks and tragedies.
	www.light1998.com /EVENTS/Maya_Hieroglyphs_Recount_Giant_War.htm (2074 words)

	Maya Society of Minnesota
		A contemporary K'iche' Maya ritual-drama, La Conquista recounts the military defeat of the K'iche' by the Spanish in 1524 and is considered the national dance of Guatemala.
		Our Maya Society membership has been represented at many of these and they are a wonderful opportunity to both get a firsthand look at "what's hot" and current, but also a chance to get to meet some of the people making significant contributions to our knowledge and understanding of the ancient Maya.
		Following the presentation of a seminal work on caves and the Maya underworld at the Palenque Mesa Redonda conference, on the morning of June 29, 1978, Dr. Puleston was struck by a bolt of lightening and killed while on the pyramid of El Castillo at Chichén Itzá.
	www.hamline.edu /mayasociety (3305 words)

	Maya Hieroglyphs Recount "Giant War" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Summary Newly revealed inscriptions at an ancient pyramid in Guatemala suggest that the Maya civilization, at its peak, was dominated by two powerful city-states that engaged in a protracted "superpower" struggle.
		Stone hieroglyphs are exposed on the stairs of an ancient pyramid at the Maya ruin of Dos Pilas.
		Federico Fahsen, an expert in the interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs, said the text carved into the staircase of a pyramid at Dos Pilas in Guatemala is unusual because it documents not only the city's triumphs but also its setbacks and tragedies.
	www.ngnews.com /news/2002/09/0917_020919_pilas_2.html (1855 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: A Borderland Colloquy: Altar Q, Copn, Honduras @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the mid-eighth century CE, the Maya polity of Copn, Honduras, was the richest urban center in the hill country to the southeast of Guatemala's Motagua River.
		The earliest, longest-lived, and most active centers of "lowland Maya civilization" lay in the low karstic basins of northern Guatemala (the department of the Petn) and the southern interior of the Yucatan Peninsula (the state of Campeche) (Fig.
		Hieroglyphic texts from Copn that cite rituals associated with the dedication of monuments or altars invoke the cosmology of the four-sided Mesoamerican universe and emphasize the monument's obedience to the principle of the foursquare, ritually ordered space.
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		Such a derivation is surprising, given the relatively large number of first millennium BC Maya monuments, from the Southern Highlands and Pacific Piedmont of Guatemala, bearing connected texts with Early Maya hieroglyphs.
		Though hieroglyphic literacy was exterminated, these Maya scribes preserved and expanded upon a unique body of native literature, written in various alphabets created by the Spanish priests, which is invaluable to students of Maya writing.
		Houston and Stuart report that Paul Schellhas "identified many Maya deities in the codices [Maya hieroglyphic books]." Schellhas' "identifications" are the foundation of much of the subsequent work on the non-calendric portion of the Maya texts and merit closer examination.
	members.fortunecity.com /mayaglyphs1/casechron/piel-1.html (1124 words)

	Public Anthropology
		Advocates of the screech owl glyph argue that the Ek element is not present in the glyph of the screech owl.
		Beyer believes that for a hieroglyph representing death, the owl would be a suitable object, so the Ek element cannot be used completely as the basis of his belief.
		The Supposed Maya Hieroglyph of the Screech Owl.
	publicanthropology.org /Archive/Aa1929.htm (12430 words)

	Hieroglyphics - Online Hieroglyphic Translator - FREE!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Maya Hieroglyphics Study Guide by Inga Calvin includes nouns, verbs, calendrics, emblym glyphs and titles.
		Hieroglyphics - find out where this picture writing was used and how to read it.
		Hieroglyphics was a system of "Picture Writing" used in Ancient Egypt.
	linksession.com /q/hieroglyphics.htm (177 words)

	A Millennium Prayer For The End of Days Aligning With the Spirit of the Maya Calendar End-Date 2012 by Dwayne Edward ...
		To understand the significance of the Tzolkin, we need to realize that the Maya consider the center of our Milky Way galaxy to be a cosmically conscious source of energy and intelligence orchestrating the evolution of all life on Earth.
		For centuries the Maya have used the Tzolkin for the timing of spiritual activities and for the reckoning of personal destiny.
		Maya consider the Tzolkin to be a universal spiritual tool capable of transmitting to humanity, cosmic messages emanating from galactic center, what they call Hunab Ku.
	www.dwayneedwardrourke.com /Pages/Mill2012.htm (1785 words)

	Maya Divination - Maya World Studies Center
		These prognostication tables are written in Mayat'an, the Maya idiom of Yucatán, by means of a specially adapted Latin alphabet, but as a comparison with passages of similar content in the Codex Dresdensis shows, they no doubt have their origin in the hieroglyphic books from pre-Columbian times.
		It consists of the names of the twenty days of the tsolk'in and the specific properties, which these days have, in shaping the destinies, the qualities, and the basic behavior, and the future occupations of men and women who were born under their powers.
		Once the babies are born they bathe them immediately, and once they were through with the painful process of flattening their foreheads and heads, they went with them to the priest so that he might foresee their destiny and foretell the profession they were going to have.
	www.mayacalendar.com /mayacalendar/mayadivination7.htm (632 words)

	Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Early Maya Writing
		The hieroglyphs were originally part of a richly decorated room painted with colorful murals, the researchers say.
		This ancient Maya hieroglyph is probably an early version of the word for lord, noble, or ruler.
		Before archaeologists found these hieroglyphs in San Bartolo, the oldest known examples of Maya writing were from between 100 B.C. and 100 A.D. The new discovery bumps back the date a few centuries.
	www.sciencenewsforkids.org /articles/20060125/Note3.asp (429 words)

	NGA - Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (04/2004)
		The installation was organized in 6 sections: Life at the Maya Court; The Divine Model of Courtly Life; Women at Court; Word and Image in the Maya Court; The Court at War; and Palenque: An Exemplary Maya Court.
		An audio tour was narrated by National Gallery of Art Director Earl A. Powell III with commentary by exhibition curator Mary Miller; Simon Martin, research specialist at the University of Pennsylvania; and David S. Stuart, Bartlett Curator of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
		A public symposium, New Discoveries in the Art of the Ancient Maya, was presented on April 17.
	www.nga.gov /past/data/exh826.shtm (646 words)

	[Aztlan] MAYA HIEROGLYPH DICTIONARY by Peter Mathews & Peter Biro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Maya Hieroglyph Dictionary also provides analyses of the word or compound and cross-references to similar words and compounds.
		A major aim of the Maya Hieroglyph Dictionary is for it to be 'user-friendly', so that words can be looked up either by the Maya word or by their English or Spanish translation.
		MAYA HIEROGLYPH DICTIONARY By Peter Mathews and Peter Biro, with drawings by John Montgomery: http://research.famsi.org/mdp/mdp_index.php Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. http://www.famsi.org/index.html
	www.famsi.org /pipermail/aztlan/2006-November/001451.html (203 words)

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		Hieroglyphic reading, writing could only be done by a few scribes (after years of training), but alphabets may be learned by the majority.
		My conjecture is that some form of Hieroglyphs (ideograms), because all languages of the world developed from one sort of hieroglyph or another, and therefore THE language before Babel must be hieroglyphic (before Babel, there was only one language throughout the world).
		Comparing the Maya hieroglyphs to that of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, we should know that they share nothing other than that they are both glyphs.
	balder.prohosting.com /sywu/Hglyph.htm (2464 words)

	Maya Hieroglyphs Recount "Giant War" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Summary Newly revealed inscriptions at an ancient pyramid in Guatemala suggest that the Maya civilization, at its peak, was dominated by two powerful city-states that engaged in a protracted "superpower" struggle.
		Demarest thinks the warfare described in the Dos Pilas inscriptions may reflect a period when the Maya civilization was on the verge of moving to a higher level of organization and consolidating into a single empire.
		David Stuart, a Maya hieroglyph expert at Harvard University, said the conflicts recorded in the seventh-century inscriptions at Dos Pilas did not lead directly to the abandonment of Maya cities, which happened much later.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/09/0917_020919_pilas_2.html (1811 words)

	LiveScience.com - Earliest Maya Writings Found
		Newly discovered hieroglyphs show that the Maya were writing at a complex level 150 years earlier than previously thought.
		A common problem with dating Maya writing is that it is often on stone, which scientists can't accurately date using radiocarbon dating.
		Photograph of the glyph block from the Maya temple of San Bartolo, Guatemala.
	www.livescience.com /history/060105_maya_writing.html (634 words)

	AnthroNotes Fall 2001
		The ancient Maya are renowned for their achievements in art, architecture, writing, science, and urban planning in the varied and challenging environment of the greater Yucatán peninsula and neighboring areas.
		The Maya successfully exploited these differing and challenging environments but also had to cope with their fragility and the impact of short-term changes such as drought, and natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions.
		Maya art is found on almost everything made and used by the Maya and in every material with which they worked.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /anthro/outreach/anthnote/fall01/anthnote.html (10707 words)

	Maya Mysteries, Mirror for Man:
		Thus, here, the Maya are positioned as an object of study whose importance is not, in this specific passage, measured in terms of filling the proverbial “gaps” of knowledge, but rather in terms of “progress” measured institutionally by explicitly sociological, economic, and political values.
		the “genius” of the Maya was to be revealed by archeology for both celebration as an advanced civilization yet categorically located as subordinate within sociopolitical orders and inferior within ideological hierarchies of “civilization” that were associated with differently imagined communities.
		The folklorization of the Maya attains its most developed, or at least massive, and performative expressions in the annual tourist ritual of the spring equinox at Chichén that is sponsored by the state government and the federal Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH).
	www2.hawaii.edu /~quetzil/uhm2001/maya_mysteries.html (9622 words)

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		A commentary on the Dresden codex;: A Maya hieroglyphic book (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, v.
		Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 1, Introduction (Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions)
		An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs (Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution.
	www.librarything.com /catalog_bottom.php?tag=mayan&view=mmcm (147 words)

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