The Maya (Ancient Peoples and Places)

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The Maya writing system (often called hieroglyphs from a superficial resemblance to Ancient Egyptian writing) [281] is a logosyllabic writing system, combining a syllabary of phonetic signs representing syllables with logogram representing entire words. [280] [282] Among the writing systems of the Pre-Columbian New World, Maya script most closely represents the spoken language. [283] At any one time, no more than around 500 glyphs were in use, some 200 of which (including variations) were phonetic. [280] FAMSI. "Maya Hieroglyphic Writing – The Ancient Maya Codices: The Madrid Codex". FAMSI (Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies) . Retrieved 2012-07-24. Vail, Gabrielle (2015). "Astronomy in the Dresden Codex". Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy. pp.695–708. Bibcode: 2015hae..book..695V. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_65. ISBN 978-1-4614-6140-1. {{ cite book}}: |journal= ignored ( help)

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One method of supporting a Munchausen-by-proxy diagnosis is a separation test: Remove the child from the offending parent and see if her health dramatically improves. But as weeks went by with Maya isolated, she continued to report extreme pain. Smith, still not buying the CRPS story, began to wonder if something besides Munchausen by proxy could explain what was happening. She instructed doctors to secretly videotape Maya and asked nurses to try to catch the girl moving her legs. “I just went to see Maya,” one hospital employee texted Smith. “I watched her use her feet to push herself several feet in her wheelchair … She was distracted and I’m not even sure she realized she did it bc i didn’t call attention to it.” Smith replied, “Fortunately at 10 years old she can’t perform the charade effectively 24/7. And doesn’t even know if she’s making ‘physiological’ mistakes. I’m coming to take some pictures of her ‘affected’ legs.”Maya political administration, based around the royal court, was not bureaucratic in nature. Government was hierarchical, and official posts were sponsored by higher-ranking members of the aristocracy; officials tended to be promoted to higher levels of office over their lives. Officials are referred to as being "owned" by their sponsor, and this relationship continued even after the death of the sponsor. [118] The Maya royal court was a vibrant and dynamic political institution. [119] There was no universal structure for the Maya royal court, instead each polity formed a royal court that was suited to its own individual context. [120] A number of royal and noble titles have been identified by epigraphers translating Classic Maya inscriptions. Ajaw is usually translated as "lord" or "king". In the Early Classic, an ajaw was the ruler of a city. Later, with increasing social complexity, the ajaw was a member of the ruling class and a major city could have more than one, each ruling over different districts. [121] Paramount rulers distinguished themselves from the extended nobility by prefixing the word kʼuhul to their ajaw title. A kʼuhul ajaw was "divine lord", originally confined to the kings of the most prestigious and ancient royal lines. [122] Kalomte was a royal title, whose exact meaning is not yet deciphered, but it was held only by the most powerful kings of the strongest dynasties. It indicated an overlord, or high king, and was only in use during the Classic period. [123] By the Late Classic, the absolute power of the kʼuhul ajaw had weakened, and the political system had diversified to include a wider aristocracy, that by this time may well have expanded disproportionately. [124] Classic period sculpture showing sajal Aj Chak Maax presenting captives before ruler Itzamnaaj Bʼalam III of Yaxchilan [125] Ciudad Ruiz, Andrés; Alfonso Lacadena (1999). J.P. Laporte and H.L. Escobedo (ed.). "El Códice Tro-Cortesiano de Madrid en el contexto de la tradición escrita Maya"[The Tro-Cortesianus Codex of Madrid in the context of the Maya writing tradition] (PDF). Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 1998 (in Spanish). Guatemala City, Guatemala: Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología: 876–888. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-14 . Retrieved 2012-07-23. The 260-day tzolkʼin provided the basic cycle of Maya ceremony, and the foundations of Maya prophecy. No astronomical basis for this count has been proved, and it may be that the 260-day count is based on the human gestation period. This is reinforced by the use of the tzolkʼin to record dates of birth, and provide corresponding prophecy. The 260-day cycle repeated a series of 20-day-names, with a number from 1 to 13 prefixed to indicated where in the cycle a particular day occurred. [316] Main article: Mesoamerican Long Count calendar §Correlations between Western calendars and the Long Count