[Aztlan] Left hand

[Greg Sandor]

Were those glyphs meant to be read in  a mirror?

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From: "Robert Hall" <robertleonardhall at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:22 AM
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Subject: [Aztlan] Left hand

> Listeros,
>      I found Diane Winters comments very pertinent to some of my own 
> interests. I am in process of writing an article in which I briefly 
> mention Maya "mirrored" glyphic texts as possible archaeological examples 
> of reverse speech. Reverse or contrary behavior, including reverse speech 
> has associations with the underworld, death, and the night sky as a 
> manifestation  of  the underworld. The most familiar example south of the 
> border is the reverse speech associated  with the Huichol peyote 
> pilgrimmage. In this case reverse speech is not initiated until the 
> passing of a "cloud gate," which suggests a symbolic entrance into the 
> (night?) sky. Among the Pawnees the direction of certain rites are 
> reversed when they represent events that once took place in the night sky. 
> Frank Lipp indicates that "movements of personnel in Mixe ritual is in a 
> sinistral fashion, starting with the east, except for those carried out 
> for Mihku', the lord of the underworld,
> which are in a clockwise movement" (The Mixe of Oaxaca, U of Texas Press, 
> 1991, p. 57). Bob Hall
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