I would also speculate that the numbers stray from astronomical predictions-deducible by calculation-because of the difficulties of detection. 1c note, however, that this may be less the eye of an observer than the Moon Goddess within). Perhaps this refers to first-sighting (Fig. A rare variant sign is a human eye peering out of a moon glyph. For these and other examples the likelihood is that the “arrivals” refer to the sighting of the new moon as crescent. Tikal Stela 40, from June 19, AD 468 (Julian), has it too, at position A7 (Fig. One of the first must occur on Balakbal Stela 5:A5, dating to May 16, AD 406 (Julian). 58) d) “Siegal Mask”:B4 (drawing by author) e) Calakmul celt (drawing by Alexandre Tokovinine) f) NAR Stela 24:C7-C10, and g) E3-D7 (drawings by Ian Graham, CMHI, Peabody Museum, Harvard University).įinding an early example of this glyph is somewhat difficult. Chauche) c) Piedras Negras Throne 1:B’3 (Thompson 1971:fig. 56a) b) Tikal Stela 40:A7 (photograph by D. a) Balakbal Stela 5:A5 (Ruppert and Denison 1943:pl. Along with certain specialists, I view these as providing a phonic reinforcement for the final consonant in hul, a marker of single-argument predicates (- i), and a past-tense suffix (- iiy). Underneath the hand and moon cluster two glyphic syllables, li and ya. At first crescent this is precisely the shape and orientation of the moon. (In Maya imagery, extended fingers mark conversation or emphatic declaration.) The position of the crescent to the right side, concavity to the left, is understandable. The compound consists of a number followed by a hand with an extended index finger. This had to apply equally to Glyph C, which also bore the lunar sign.īy now, epigraphers understand the elements of Glyph D. In one such variant, especially in Glyph D of the Lunar Series, the moon-sign was not the verbal suffix I supposed it to be. But what of the moon? In the late 1980s my colleagues Barb Macleod, Nikolai Grube, and Dave Stuart sorted out the varied glyphs that went into hul, “arrive.” Hearing of this, the obvious hit me. A basic unit of time was, of course, the k’in, meaning “day” but also “sun.” Royalty associated themselves with the Sun God, invoking his name as a key prefix to their own. Maya dynasts had a long stake in the sky. Her favored company: a rabbit, the light-fingered trickster of Classic Maya thought and an emblem of fecundity. We do know that the Maya linked the moon to a young woman of child-bearing age. 1987 Folin and Rizzotti 2001:542, also Fehring et al. ![]() Some scholars find a secure correlation between the moon and menstruation in human females others dispute it entirely (cf. But the relation of humans to celestial motions is less clear. ![]() That a correspondence might exist between a celestial body and terrestrial events is hardly strange. As usual, Shakespeare (or Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons) said it all: “…the moon … new-bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.”
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