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Since we just celebrated Halloween, All Saints Day and All Souls Day, it seems like a good time to talk about Maya “way” or Mexican Nauals. These are spirit animals that dance in the underworld. The Maya believed their King had an animal essence that would roam the earth while he slept.
The Classic Maya had a true written language that consisted of glyphs that were either syllabic or logographic. A glyph could either be a syllable or an entire word or concept. These glyphs could be in sculptures, painted on walls or ceramics, or drawn in their own version of books: codices. A codex was made with bark paper and folded back and forth like an accordion.
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