[Aztlan] Cacao & ka-ka-wa

[Sam Edgerton]

Listeros: A good example of how the Maya spelled and pronounced their name 
for chocolate by the late classic can be seen and read on a vase now in the 
Williams College Museum of Art, Kerr 8713.  See the photo and drawing, 
glyphs D and E, an unusual collocation of two side-by-side fish-head "ka" 
signs, with a "wa" suffixed to the latter. The pot once contained "fresh" 
cacao. Read the excellent translation of the whole PSS by Marc Zender,
Sam Edgerton