THE MAYAS-LANGUAGE & DICTIONARY-QUAI
BRANLY MUSEUM & MUSIC
1. JOHN MONTGOMERY
– DICTIONARY OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS – 2002 - SECOND PRINTING 2006
2. JOHN MONTGOMERY
– HOW TO READ MAYA HIEROGLYPHS – 2002
3.
MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY –
MUSIQUES ET CHANTS – MAYAS – LES AMERINDIENS, PEUPLES MAYA, TOTOMAQUE, CORA –
MEXIQUE – FREMEAUX ASSOCIES, 2014
4. MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY – MAYAS, RÉVÉLATIONS D’UN TEMPS SANS
FIN – 2014
I am here finding
elements that can be connected to many other systems in the world, both
languages and rituals. Maya as a language is not an isolate. The point is that
the written system is so complex and the calendar calculations are so
complicated that we cannot consider they appeared like that, ready to be used
in about 1000 BCE and certainly not later.
These systems must have
required many millennia to be invented and refined, just like Mayan
architecture and Mayan technology capable of producing a durable material medium for their language and
stories.
It is the same thing
with corn that had to be completely genetically modified to become what we know
it is that CANNOT reproduce without a human hand to get the grains out of the
husk. And we could speak of their ritualistic beverages that are so complicated
that they look like some fine art perfume produced by today's chemical
laboratories.
I think here that the
Mayan culture, the Aztec culture, the Toltec culture, the Inca culture could
not have evolved from a population coming along with the Clovis migration. If
it took 5,000 years for the Sumerians to devise their writing system which is
child's play when compared to the Mayan system, I believe these Homo Sapiens
must have arrived in the Americas
before the Ice Age and certainly not late after it. To devise this writing
system when the language would have stabilized enough, not to speak of the
calendars, the Mayans must have needed at least 15,000 years, probably more.
Except of course if you
consider language is a gift from extraterrestrials or angels and gods, which is
not within my frame of mind.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 1:14 PM
