[Aztlan] Aztlan Digest, Vol 48, Issue 15

[Nick Hopkins]

Hey, it looks to me like an early version of the "copyright" sign, which later must have inverted the circle and the letter "C"; here we have the C on the outside of the circle.  So it IS "the beginning" of something!!!
Nick 

> From: bmacleod at austin.rr.com
> To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:16:28 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Aztlan Digest, Vol 48, Issue 15
> 
> No, it's not a real Maya glyph unless it were being touted as the 
> coefficient 'two' or the "doubler" sign identified by David Stuart as cueing 
> that the next syllable is to be reduplicated. I am not aware of a specific 
> glyph for 'beginning' in any cosmic sense, though the languages all have 
> verb roots for 'begin'.
> Channeling energy for the task at hand, I would suggest that in a cosmic 
> sense, 'Two' references all paired oppositions in the known universe, 
> signaling the next step to be taken, of course: dissolution into One. But we 
> have absolutely no evidence that the Maya meant this when they wrote 'two'.
> 
> Barb MacLeod
> 
> 
> "Sculpted in low relief, this Maya glyph represents the beginning of 
> something in time and space. The awakening upon achieving the proper balance 
> between the external and internal, it channels energy to the task at hand. 
> When placed before numbers, it indicates the beginning of what transpires in 
> the following 24 hours. Elisa Camarena crafts the piece with resin and 
> presents it on a pinewood base."
>

 		 	   		  
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