Pre-Columbian MesoAmerican Comics: The Maya

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This is a page-in-progress for resources on Mayan codices & graphic narrative art.

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• AuthenticMaya.com features:
  • “Maya Writing“
  • “Maya Art”
  • “Maya Calendar”
  • “Maya Mythology”
• “Maya Civilization“on Wikipedia
  • Art – see also “Maya Art”
  • Mathematics – see also “Maya numerals”
  • Writing
• “Maya Script” on Wikipedia
• MayaWeb.NL = Some useful charts under ANCIENT MAYA: “Deciphering Maya Hieroglyphs” | “Write Your Name in Maya Hieroglyphs” | etc.

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Mayan Writing:

• “Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs“ by John Montgomery
• “Mayan Script” on Omniglot.com
• Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs (Kettunen & Helmke, Workshop Handbook, 2008)
• Timeline of Maya history (images)
• Timeline of Maya history (text, specific dates)

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Maya Codices:

• Maya codiceson Wikipedia
  • Dresden Codex
  • Grolier Codex
  • Madrid Codex
  • Paris Codex
• Codex in Astronomy

More Supporting Texts:

• “Yucatan Before and After the Conquest” (De Landa, c. 1562)
• “Current Maya Date” = Maya calendar system on Sacred-Texts.com
• “Maya Cycles of Time” from Mathematical Association of America’s “Mathematical Sciences Digital Library”
• “About Mayan Calendars“ from Coyote Wind Studios = explanatory diagrams & calendar glyphs
• “Reading Mayan Hieroglyphs” interactive game from PBS’s “Nova”
• “Cracking the Maya Code” from PBS’s “Nova”
• JaguarStones.net = glyphs |math | calendar | websites
•  The Construction of the Codex In Classic- and Postclassic-Period Maya Civilization (Thomas J. Tobin)

Studying Mesoamerica? Don’t forget the Aztec!:

•  Aztec Overview on FAMSI
• Early Aztec writing systems (compared to Mayan):
  “Apparently the development of phonetic writing was not as crucial to the evolution of civilization in Mesoamerica as it had been in other parts of the world. Indeed pictographic communication and narrative art can be remarkably effective in facilitating information exchange, especially at the “international” level. This observation is nowhere more evident than in our own contemporaneous revolution in communication through the development of symbologies in film, television, computer language, and advertising – a situation intensified by extreme factional competition among nations for control of the international market place.”
• SEE ALSO:
  Comics in Mexico (wikipedia) >>