[Aztlan] Mayan research downloads

[ECOLING at aol.com]

The web page
www.TraditionalHighCultures.com/Mayan_Downloads.html

now contains the following kinds of documents, mostly .pdf files:

1.   Material on difficulties of translation generally,
      and items specific to the Quiché language 
      and to the first 1720 lines of the Popol Vuh (Quiché and English 
versions)

2.   A summary chart of Mayan CVC and CVVC spelling patterns
      (the notorious "synharmonic" and "disharmonic" spellings which
      reflect or signal vowel length and presence of a glottal or not),
      together with a review of Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing 
no.62

For Mayan Vases:
3.   A concordance from Kerr numbers to pages in The Maya Vase Book,
      and to illustration and page numbers in other publications

4.   Many lists of vases from Kerr's database, 
      grouped by subject matter, by the type of scene represented.  
      Often this is easier than using a keyword search.
      Covers much of the iconography, but not yet vases consisting only of 
glyphs.

      Two short essays are linked to,
      one on the "Baby Jaguar" scenes (a rebirth rather than a sacrifice)

      the other suggesting how we can distinguish Skybands from Roofbands,
      and how the symbols in Skybands were simplified through time into
      mere abstract patterns (conceivably even the chevron bands of Chama
      if they were not from the warfare use of chevrons among Mixtec and 
others)

Please let me know how to make these and similar resources more useful.

Lloyd Anderson
Ecological Linguistics
PO Box 15156
Washington DC 20003
ecoling at aol.com
202-547-7683



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