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system so detailed of writing of old the Mayans, is considered by archaeologists
like the sophisticated writing but sometimes made in all America, although today
only it exists in the ruins and art of the great civilization. Archaeologists
have been studying the writing of the Mayans during many years, but he was not
until 1962, that the Mayan hieroglyphics were catalogued. Since then a great progress
in the advance has become of the translation and understanding of hieroglyphics
found in ruins and excavations.
The Mayans wrote using hundreds
of individual signals or symbols that represented words or syllables (the sounds),
that could be combined. These whole combinations would form a word in the Mayan
language. This writing is very difficult to interpret for several reasons as symbols
can represent both sounds or ideas. The symbols had to be combined with the known
context as each phrase were ***reflxed mng. This is because many Mayan concepts
were written in more than a form. For example, the numbers were written with the
symbols or the image of a God associated with that number or a combination of
both. This means that a single idea could be written in an endless ones of ways.
So instead of trying to read the Mayan writings, it is necessary to try to decipher
them.
 Symbols
were painted in called books codices that were made of skin of animal or paper
of leaf of fig tree covered with lime to make a surface of the clean writing.
Each book formed in a single long strip and folded like a screen. These codices
were painted by you write and registry the most important events. The four which
they survived the conquest are: The Codex of From (78 pages). Probably it was
written in Chichén Itzá around 1200 D.C. and he is three and average
meters long; The Codex of Madrid (112 pages) contains religious writings and predictions;
The Codex of Paris (22 pages), contains predictions and a calendar; The Codex
of Grolier that contains on half of a table of 20-pages, information about the
movements of Venus.
Other
books mayas including the Popol Vuh writing with Roman characters went and has
to see with the history maya of Quiché. The Chilam Balam are books of songs, profecías
and calendars. The Anales of Cakchiquel were writings in 1605, in the language
of Cakchiquel. They are similar in the volume to the Popol Vuh.
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