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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
How to Decipher Mayan Languages
There are two kinds of signs in the Mayan script. A word like king, a how in classic Mayan can be written with a particular sign. They could also write the same word using sounds and what they used were consonant vowel syllables. So there was a built in flexibility, kind of an artistic sensibility into the script that I think makes it fantastic to study.
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