[Aztlan] Glyph for Love

[Mark Van Stone]

Dear Dave & Fiona,
   When I was contracted to design glyphs for jade jewelry (to be made from the newly-discovered blue-green deposit discovery - see Ventanamining.com, if it still exists), I tried to find words for New Age concepts like "love" "peace", etc.  I sat down with Maya informants with a long list of possibilities, and about 80% they had no appropriate translation for. For example, the best we came up with for "fertility" was "fertilizer," which was the same as the word for "shit"... (Is this the reason Ventana went out of business?)  It was a sobering lesson in cultural distinctions, so many times being told, gently, "But we never say that."
   Anyway, good luck.  Talk to a thoroughly westernized, literate, bilingual Maya and you may come up with something.
   Mark Van Stone


-----Original Message-----
From: aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org on behalf of David and Fiona Gray
Sent: Tue 11/11/2008 2:20 PM
To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Subject: [Aztlan] Glyph for Love
 
Is there a glyph that would represent love. or any thinjg that is a synonym for love. I tried seaching some online dictionaries but they came up with nothing. .  


      

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