Learner's Maya Glyph Guide
This website is an HTML version of CMGG, Sim Lee's Classic Maya Glyph Guide (Amsterdam: self-published, 2023-2024), with an accompanying Concordance that gives a visual cross-reference to Thompson, Bonn, and MHD glyph information, including all of their glyphs.
Learner's Maya Glyph Guide
2024年11月15日 · Learner's Maya Glyph Guide TTTs (Transliteration-Transcription-Translations) Sim Lee and John Pedersen, November 2024. TTTs and Summaries are from Sim Lee's CMGG. Please see here for explanatory notes about the TTTs. Photos are at the URLs given in the All-In-Ones. Drawings are from the sources cited with them.
• The basic (and most common) variant is a single glyph consisting of abstract intertwined strands (does anyone know the meaning / iconographic origin?). However, the lassic Maya script was so flexible and creative that a series of double glyphs arose, to write the same wo rd.
[This document is part of the Learner’s Maya Glyph Guide.] Introductory Notes • This TTT is based on drawings by Looper: o QRG - Stela J (east side) (Looper-LW.p102.pdfp115.fig3.29). ... are two glyph-blocks wide (taking the full width of columns A-B) and two glyph-blocks high (causing the first glyph-block of the LC to be row 3). ...
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• The release of the onn Maya Dictionary project standardized glyphs in late 2022 (https://classicmayan.org/zeichenkatalog). As I assume that most readers will be familiar with the second and third of these threads, this document will concentrate on the first – the Classic Maya Glyph Guide (MGG). 1. The initial trigger
[This document is part of the Learner’s Maya Glyph Guide.] Introductory Notes • This TTT is based on drawings by Looper. • Drawings – the monument consists of glyphic text on the west and east sides, and with iconography on the other two (north and south) sides. o The west side has two columns of glyphic text with 24 rows: A1-B24 (Looper-
o Looper-LW (Lightning Warrior - Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua (Looper; 2003)): Extensive information on QRG Stela F, including background information on the stela itself.
Appendix D – Glyph Example Format The examples are almost overwhelmingly from drawings, but a small number are from photographs. Each glyph example is labelled in quite a complex way.
Learner's Maya Glyph Guide and Concordance
This website is an HTML version of CMGG, Sim Lee's Classic Maya Glyph Guide (Amsterdam: self-published, 2023-2024), with an accompanying Concordance that gives a visual cross-reference to Thompson, Bonn, and MHD glyph information, including all of their glyphs (many undeciphered). The grids below are a kind of "index" to the CMGG; click on the ...
This learning to read Maya glyphs can be done by the time-honoured three-step method of doing a TTT (=Transliteration, Transcription, and Translation) of the inscription. In the first step (T--), the reader determines which actual glyphs are present. In the second step (-T-), the reader