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	Maya script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maya writing was called "hieroglyphics" or "hieroglyphs" by early European explorers of the 18th and 19th century who did not understand it but found its general appearance reminisscent of Egyptian hieroglyphs, which the Maya writing system is not related to.
		As far as is currently known, the Maya script of the Classic era was primarily used to write two Mayan languages, Cholan (in the central parts of the Maya lands around Palenque and Tikal, and and far south as Copán) and Yucatecan (in the Yucatán Peninsula).
		Maya writing consisted of a highly elaborate set of glyphs which were laboriously painted on ceramics, walls or bark-paper codices, carved in wood or stone, or molded in stucco.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maya_hieroglyphics (2655 words)

	Maya civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Maya civilization is a historical Mesoamerican civilization, which extended throughout the northern Central American region which includes the present-day nations of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras and El Salvador, as well as the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, and the Yucatán Peninsula states of Quintana Roo, Campeche and Yucatán.
		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.
		The Maya configured constellations of gods and places, saw the unfolding of narratives in their seasonal movements, and believed that the intersection of all possible worlds was in the night sky.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maya_civilization (5347 words)

	Mayan Writing - Codices - Crystalinks
		The Maya writing system (often called hieroglyphics from a vague superficial resemblance to the Egyptian writing, to which it is not related) was a combination of phonetic symbols and ideograms.
		Maya writing was composed of recorded inscriptions on stone and wood and used within architecture.
		The Maya also carved these symbols into stone, but the most common place for writing was probably the highly perishable books they made from bark paper, coated with lime to make a fresh white surface.
	www.crystalinks.com /mayanwriting.html (583 words)

	Mayan Civilization
		The ancient Maya civilization occupied the eastern third of Mesoamerica, primarily the Yucatan Peninsula.
		The son of Maya archaeologists George and Gene Stuart, he made his first trip to Maya ruins at the age of three, and by 1984, at 18, was so skilled at deciphering glyphs that he became the youngest recipient ever of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.
		Maya weavers embroider their wares with diamond motifs that are virtually identical to the cosmological patterns depicted on the lintels of ancient temples at Yaxchilan and other Maya sites.
	www.indians.org /welker/maya.htm (6103 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Maya
		The Maya hieroglypic writing is arguably one of the most visually striking writing systems of the world.
		The earliest examples of Maya writing dates from the Late Preclassic, perhaps as early as 100 BCE, although many are on portable objects that are hard to date archaeologically.
		The Mayas, on the other hand, heard the syllables "ah", "beh", "seh" (as "a", "b" and "c" would be pronounced in Spanish), and so forth, and naturally gave the glyphs with these phonetic values.
	www.ancientscripts.com /maya.html (1196 words)

	Hieroglyphs and History at Copán
		The Demise of Ruler 13 and of Copán
		Anyone glancing at a Maya inscriptions would be immediately struck by the sheer complexity of the visual forms of the script itself -- the "look" of the Maya script is in fact difficult to compare with any other.
		This temple was conceived as the model of the primordial maize-sprouting mountain (wits) of Maya cosmology.
	www.peabody.harvard.edu /Copan/text.html (5141 words)

	Glyphs, Early Belize History
		Catherwood reproduced and reduced the shapes of Maya glyphs and art, while Stephens made far sighted and futuristic comments suggesting the unity of the language and script across the southern lands and that the spoken Maya language was involved in deciphering the Maya writing.
		Eric Thompson, who dominated all Maya studies during the first half of this century, argued that the glyphs on the Maya ruins could not be spoken because they were ideographs, or signs covering ideas and not the sounds of the language (Scarborough 1994: 40).
		Since Knorosov, Berlin, and Proskouriakoff revolutionized Maya studies with their discoveries (the phonetic alphabet and the glyphs recording the names and deeds of native lords), epigraphers have been revealing "accounts of courtly officials, warriors, scribes, and sculptors, ladies of the blood and sacrificial captives" (Houston 1989: 52).
	www.ambergriscaye.com /earlyhistory/glyphs.html (6454 words)

	Ancient Maya writing ... Has the code been broken at last?
		The Maya script is not a code at all, but rather a graphic system for expressing a language-oriented message.
		Phonemes are derived from the Maya language of the period and region.
		Of the existing Maya languages, scholars cannot be sure which evolved from the Maya language of the Maya script.
	www.ambergriscaye.com /museum/digit15.html (771 words)

	Recommended Maya books
		The calendar, Maya deities, and the life of the ruling elite are particularly well covered.
		Maya Script is an interesting and entertaining introduction to the Maya for general readers.
		The Popol Vuh was written in the Quiche language of the highland Maya of Guatemala shortly after the Spanish conquest, using the Latin alphabet.
	members.shaw.ca /mjfinley/books.html (1446 words)

	Breaking the Maya Code - Night Fire Films - Films that explore the rich ways humans have made sense of their world ...
		The Maya script was used in what is now southern Mexico and Central America from about AD100 until after the arrival of Cortés in the sixteenth century.
		But misconceptions about the nature of the Maya people and their script kept the meaning of the texts a mystery for over a century more.
		For the six million modern Maya, this recovered history and literature is an extraordinary source of pride and identity; Maya children are now learning to read basic hieroglyphs in school, and parents who for centuries named their babies after Christian saints are now naming them after ancient Maya kings.
	www.nightfirefilms.org /maya.html (511 words)

	The Maya Calendar - Understanding the Maya
		The idiom expressed in this script is an early form of a language that belongs to the Ch'olan family of Maya languages with elements from an early form of Yucatec incorporated at times.
		There are large and important sectors of the overall cultural heritage of the preconquest Maya that are simply missing from these dictionaries: all things dealing with the ancient cult are largely spared from the vocabularies, and the Maya calendar was part of their religion.
		Maybe it is for this reason that Maya scholars of the past and present have always been tempted to reconstruct, remodel and refurbish the ancient Maya acoording to their personal views, assumptions, and prejudices.
	www.mayacalendar.com /mayacalendar/undstmaya.html (738 words)

	Setting the scripting environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Maya finds and runs scripts that are in the maya/scripts directory regardless of which version of Maya you use.
		Maya finds and runs scripts that are in the maya/version/scripts directory only if you are using the matching version number of Maya.
		If a script in your local scripts directory has the same name as a script in the Maya internal script files directory, the one in your local scripts directory executes.
	www.c3.hu /docs/maya/UserGuide/Mel/ScriptIntro2.html (866 words)

	Jem's Web site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Maya animators are welcome to download and use any of the MEL scripts on this page.
		A common workflow is to write and edit a script in an external Editor (such as Crimson Editor), and then copy-and-paste it into Maya's Script Editor.
		Unlike the settings in Maya's Preferences Window (which are liable to change unpredictably, depending on which scenes you've opened recently), the settings in this window are guaranteed to remain the same until you change them yourself.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~jem/mel.htm (681 words)

	About Maya Script \| Abbeville Press
		A fascinating handbook revealing the secrets of the symbolic written characters of the ancient Maya people, which provides a vivid portrait of their gods, people, and everyday life.
		Europeans were impressed by the painted books of the Maya but concluded that they did not have a system of writing because no alphabetic value could be given to their script.
		The complexity of the Maya calendar, mathematical computations, and astronomy reveals a highly developed civilization.
	www.abbeville.com /Products/Product0789208822.htm (281 words)

	ICT [2003/12/11] Reading signs: Breaking the Maya code
		Identifiable as Maya as early as 200 AD, explained Macri, the script continued in southern Mexico and Guatemala for almost 1,500 years until suppressed by the Spanish after the Conquest.
		That's because the phonetics of Maya script are syllabic, not alphabetic.
		Just as it is now believed the elite were not the only Maya who could read, it is no longer assumed that another elite, archaeologists who descend on Mayaland from the north, are the only ones fit to interpret their culture.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1071157213 (1058 words)

	Reading the Maya Glyphs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing has progressed to the point where most Maya written texts— whether inscribed on monuments, written in the codices, or painted or incised on ceramics—can now be read with confidence.
		They decipher real Maya texts, and the transcriptions include a picture of the glyph, the pronunciation, the Maya words in Roman type, and the translation into English.
		After an introductory discussion of Maya culture and history and the nature of the Maya script, the authors introduce the glyphs in a series of chapters that elaborate on topics such as the intricate calendar, warfare, royal lives and rituals, politics, dynastic names, ceramics, relationships, and the supernatural world.
	www.wwnorton.com /thamesandhudson/new/SPRING05/528553.htm (340 words)

	Maya Calendar: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For forty years, from the 1930s to the 1970s, the decipherment of Maya writing was held up by the false assumption (defended by Sir J. Eric S. Thompson) that the glyphs denoted ideas, so that the translation of a sentence in the Maya script required concatenation of ideas to provide a meaningful statement.
		The correct approach to the decipherment of the Maya script, namely, treating the script as the written record of a spoken language, was discovered in the 1950s by the Russian linguist Y. Knorosov.
		Good introductions to the Maya systems of counting and dates, including the tzolkin, the haab and the long count, can be found in Aveni [1], Aveni [5], Ifrah [28] and other works.
	www.hermetic.ch /cal_stud/maya/intro.htm (480 words)

	mayaintro
		Maya --- Brief introduction to the ancient and modern Maya from the Canadian Society for Mesoamerican Studies.
		Maya Writing, a Scientific American article, is a good introduction to the Maya script that explains the key breakthroughs which have made it possible to read most hieroglyphic texts.
		Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs by Harri Kettunen and Christophe Helmke is the text used at workshops teaching the Maya script presented by
	members.shaw.ca /mjfinley/mayaintro.html (1619 words)

	Script path FAQs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the post render script field, all you need to do is specify a global mel procedure that is contained in a MEL script.
		In other words, either the procedure has not been highlighted and executed in the script editor, the name was misspelled, or it doesn't exist in any of the scripts in your script path.
		Whenever you launch Maya, the MEL commands in it are executed.
	www.c3.hu /docs/maya/UserGuide/Mel/ScriptFAQ18.html (513 words)

	MIDI Visualization
		Using the tempo information, the parser calculates at which frame the notes are being played and released, and outputs a 'tune script' (which is essentially a Mel script containing calls to the functions play() and release()).
		For each visualization, a script file needs to be created which interacts with the MIDI parser.
		This script file initializes the screen either by creating the elements directly or importing them from another maya database file.
	www.cs.swarthmore.edu /~griffin/cs91/MayaProjects/Midi/WebPage/finalproj.html (868 words)

	Simply Maya - view panel refresh problem
		panePop.mel is the MEL script that is run each time you hit the space bar to "pop" from multiple viewpanels to a single viewpanel and vice versa.
		The script is located in the scripts/startup directory of the Maya application directory (i.e.
		All I did was copy panePop.mel to my user scripts directory and then add the 3 lines to save the selection, clear the selection, and reselect the previously select objects.
	forum.simplymaya.com /showthread.php?threadid=9854 (623 words)

	Alias Support
		Maya 6.5 is a full feature release and the newest version of Maya.
		Maya 6 is a full feature release and the newest version of Maya.
		Replaces the furPluginCreateUI.mel script installed with Maya 4.5 and fixes a problem in Maya Fur whereby dynamic attractors do not react to the underlying motion of the surface.
	www.alias.com /eng/support/maya/updates/index.jhtml (588 words)

	MAYAVASE.COM - FAMSI - Royal Ball Game of the Ancient Maya
		The ancient Maya are believed to reenact, through the ball game, the mythic Underworld contest between the gods of life or fertility and the gods of death.
		The present understanding of the Maya ball game tradition also centers on the inscription on the marker of the Copan ball court A (Fig.2b).
		The Maya ball game cannot be separated from the Pan-Mesoamerican tradition, where this game is primarily a way to settle disputes, to mediate relationships between various groups on different levels.
	www.mayavase.com /alex/alexballgame.html (4280 words)

	WHATS NEW V4.4.5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With the introduction of Maya 6.5 it appears there has been a change to the way that Maya listens to a port that has been opened with the MEL command,
		As a "work-around", Cutter 4.4.5 does not send a MEL script directly to Maya but, instead, writes the contents of the script to a temporary file called "temp.mel".
		What is sent to Maya is a source statement that references the "temp.mel" file.
	www.fundza.com /cutter/whatsnew/v4.4.5 (246 words)

	CGTalk - Looking for a modeling plugin/script for Maya...
		But I'd like to know if there is a plugin/script for Maya that's like the Meshtools script for max (follow the link if you want to see what it does).
		When you got the scripts and learn how to use them effectivly then you'll have the best poly packed in the world imo.
		If not, go to the maya plugins section and do a search for "connect" There is also clay_connect_edges.mel which can connnect edges into loops.
	forums.cgsociety.org /showthread.php?t=4977 (492 words)

	Welcome to CG Channel
		LightWave, Maya, and SoftImage offer script interpreters in their packages so the savvy user can tweak the graphics engine to the heart's desire.
		After fussing with various attempts to create one by creating and twisting polys, it finally occurred to me that this was one time when it would be easier to do things mathematically than manually.
		MEL is a highly generalized language, with its scripts combining scenes, geometry, and everything.
	www.cgchannel.com /news/viewfeature.jsp?newsid=1779 (484 words)

	Amazon.com: Breaking the Maya Code: Books: Michael D. Coe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya by Simon Martin
		Coe's premise is that racial discrimination and scholarly politics retarded the decipherment of the glyphs.
		Thus, by the middle of the 20th century the generally accepted view among Maya scholars was that those glyphs represented neither words nor syntactical constructions but rather that they were to be interpreted as purely mythological allusions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0500281335?v=glance (2085 words)

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