[Aztlan] Re: 2012: Was there a word for 'repetition'?

[villas]

The nature of time as reflected in the Calendar of Mesoamerica is 
progressive, it doesn't really repeat and yet it is also cyclical in 
that it follows a pattern based on astronomical movements; planetary 
and celestial.

Marcos Villaseñor


  Aug 4, 2006, at 9:08 PM, John Major Jenkins wrote:

> And yet, oddly, the two concepts share similar meanings in terms of
> cyclic repetitions and self-replacements, time and calendar.
>
> John Major Jenkins
>
>
>
> According to Carlsen's discussion of the form k'exoj in the couplet
> jaloj
> k'exoj, the root of Tzutujil k'exoj is k'ex, not k'eh or k'ej; this
> agrees with Kaufman's Mayan Vocabulary Survey data for Tzutujil.  It
> comes from
> proto-Mayan *k'ex 'to (ex)change' (see p. 781 of the preliminary Mayan
> Etymological Dictionary posted at
> _http://www.famsi.org/reports/01051/index.html_
> (http://www.famsi.org/reports/01051/index.html) ),  which has cognates
> in Lowland Mayan
> languages and must be a different root  from the one cited by MacLeod.
>
> John Justeson
>
> Barb  MacLeod discussed the Yukatek word k'eh as a word for
> 'repetition',
> used to  reflect the concept of 'return to a calendric starting point'
> as
> well as  'repetition of a prior event'.
>
> It might be worth noting the highland  Maya (Tzutujil) paradigm of
> change
> known as Jaloj Kexoj, in which Keh is a  root concept relating to
> sequences of self-replacements, such as the sun  replacing it on daily
> levels (at dawn) and yearly levels (at the December  solstice). Or a
> newborn replacing the grandparent. Jal is change at the  husk while Kej
> (or by different orthography, Keh) is change at the seed, or  core. The
> concept seems closely related to the Yukatek usage, perhaps  supplying
> an
> even deeper reading, and was explored by Carlsen and Prechtel  in the
> essays:
>
> Carlsen, Robert S., and Martín Prechtel
> 1988  Weaving and Cosmos amongst the Tzutujil Maya of Guatemala.  Res
> 15:122-132.
>
> Carlsen, Robert S., and Martín Prechtel
> 1990 The  Flowering of the Dead: An Interpretation of Highland Maya
> Culture. Man  (N.S.) 26:23-42.
>
>
>
>
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