[Aztlan] Meaning of Skyband Glyphs

[Mike Geubel]

Thank you all for the tips regarding my question about skyband glyphs.

As Beart noted, the first glyph I wrote about, what I thought was the winter
solstice, is in fact an Akbal sign. Thanks to the document "*Language
Resources*", on page 11 the row with the Akbal signs (
http://www90.homepage.villanova.edu/lowell.gustafson/Maya/Resources.pdf) I
saw that my glyph is indeed an Akbal sign (the final glyph in the row). (I
have no copies of the documents written by John Carlson and Linda Landis,
referenced by Michael Grofe). An Akbal sign in the skyband may refer to the
dark rift in the Milky Way, close to Sagittarius

For the second glyph (Kin symbol with 5 circles) I still haven't found an
explanation yet.

>From the book "*Star Gods of the Maya*" written by Susan Milbrath I noted
the following:

Page 79: *"Sky bands in both the Postclassic and Classic Maya periods often
depict the Kin symbol (Fig. 3.4j). Previous studies of sky bands have not
shown any specific significance to the positioning of Kin glyphs relative to
other astronomical symbols (Carlson 1988; Carlson and Landis 1985; Collea
1981). Nonetheless, the sky band itself does seem to allude to a specific
place in the sky at the intersection of the Milky Way and the ecliptic
(Chapter 7)."*

Page 127*: "As we will see in Chapter 7, the layout of the Paris Codex
zodiac reveals that all the constellations attached to the sky band are
located where the ecliptic crosses the Milky Way or at locations framing the
crossing point (Capricorn and Libra).*"

Page 259:* "Indeed, the sky band appears only on pages *[in the Madrid
Codex] *that correspond to times when the crossroads of the Milky Way and
the ecliptic is on the horizon at dusk.*"

Kind regards,

Mike Geubel