reply to post by karen61057
Hi Karen--
I think you missed the point of my post, but here goes....
Now, admittedly, nearly half of the ancient Mayan stone and fired ceramic pottery inscriptions are NOT particularly 'scientific' or astrological
etc. - many contain rather mundane images and phrases which are nonetheless carefully inscribed with phrases such as e.g. 'this jar is part of the
possessions of King Kukh Balam' or e.g. 'this plate is sacred to the god Ah Pekku, forming part of his offering treasury...'
But many others (especially all the 'inscribed stone bowls' ) contain authentic astrological and religious snatchets of the specific type of ritual
language found painted on the surviving Codices, which bear witness to a much larger collection of Mayan priestly actiivity.
These Mayan pained bowls and jars are often marked out in sections - so when photographed according to their divisions (which can be achieved by
photographing a section, then turning the jar and photogrpahing the adjacent section marked off by Vertical lines etc then again turned and
photographed, turned and photographed etc. ) they then can be set out in printed books into flat readible columns - where suddenly lo, and behold
(Shock and Awe !!!!) they begin to start to really look just like e.g. the Paris or the Grolier or the Madrid or the Dresden Codices - and are thus a
great source of data for archaeologists to study.
I cannot see how any of this has to do specifically with Elmer Fudd - or any of the Looney Toonies. Perhaps you have never actually seen any of these
inscribed & painted Mayan stone jars say from the 11th century CE?
Also, we must not forget all the hndreds of massive 'inscribed stone monuments' including Grave sites which also echo and copy out much of the
columned information in the same fashion as the Codices, sometimes glyph for glyph, like those found in the surviving bark Codices e.g. the Dresden or
the Paris or the Madrid Codex.
Recently several ancient Mayan sites have turned up disintegrating lumps of plaster & painted flakes, mostly in the more elaborate 'royal' tombs -
tattered remains of codices (not unlike the Dead Sea Scroll fragments !) where the organic material has rotted - but a few lumps are still semi
preserved, giving Archaeologists of the future something to work on - perhaps they might one day be able to recover some information from these
ancient fragments.
Here's a LINK for you to check out so you can see a little of what I mean -
mayanewsupdates.blogspot.com...
I think we are a long way from anything resembling modern day Looney Tunes characters which were desgned primarily as mindless entertainment for
children (and some would say also for Americans, who are sometimes said to think like mindless children, especially nowadays) but certainly not for
modern day priests.
The oldest Maya codices have been found in the form of mortuary offerings at places such as Uaxactun, Guaytán in San Agustín Acasaguastlán, Nebaj
in El Quiché in Guatemala, Altun Ha in Belize and at Copán in present-day Honduras.
The 6 fragmentary Mayan FigTree Bark Codices discovered in these recent excavations date to the Early Classic (Uaxactún / Altun Ha) but several
dozen other Codices and Fragments of longer works have been rotted away beyond any coherent deciphement.
So the more durable examples of Mayan pottery currently being unearthed may well be the salvation for much of the coded and religious/astrological
information that was once inscribed on them - to say nothing of the more than 1,500 other Fig Tree Bark Codices that were burned wholesale in
bonfires by the Roman Catholic Church (courtesy of mindless Spanish priests such as Father de Landa and his ilk ) in the 16th century as 'the Work of
the Devil' ...
Clear as mud, or do you need more Exempla?