Dr. Mark Van Stone - How Maya Hieroglyphs are written - Demonstration
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2010
- Mark Van Stone explains how Maya hieroglyphs are constructed, by writing a modern name in phonetic glyphs. Dr. Van Stone is an expert decipherer and calligrapher; author of "2012 - Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya" and co-author of "Reading the Maya Glyphs" with archaeologist Michael Coe.
You can find his books on Amazon, or you can get a cheap digital version or an autographed edition of his 2012 book from his website markvanstone.com
I'm Mayan, I speak Mayan and my last name is Mayan. I like ur video.
Imagine if this writing system had continued to be developed into modern times.
Funny how archaeologist say no one knew how to read Maya before they started to decipher it themselves, but not true, in many Maya villages in Guatemala many elder folks know how to read Maya glyphs. Archaeologist did not wanted to accept that the local Maya descendants of Guatemala knew more than they did.
I taught myself the basics of the grammar of classic Maya as well as how the writing system worked during college (long story short I way over-studied for an archaeology essay). Every time I revisit it I’m reminded just how ingenious it is and how beautiful it is. In my opinion no other language is as beautiful when written, not Mongolian, not Manchu, not Georgian, nor even something like Tamil or Tibetan.
Imagine students back then have to write their name for ten minutes
"The Spanish are coming! Take down this message to Montezuma!" "k one sec."
Mayan is beautiful. Each symbol is a work of art itself cx
Fascinating video. The combination of his voice plus watching him draw those beautiful glyphs is very relaxing. I feel like I am watching Bob Ross.
when you thought writing chinese characters is hard
How did they have the smarts to come up with this, but not to realize that it's an overly complicated mess? ._.
Such a beautiful language. I one day hope that these glyphs can be implemented into unicode, allowing the speakers of Maya languages to write and communicate in their native script.
I remember this from my Mayan hieroglyphs course, you're more skilled at the script than any of us were.
Outstanding introduction to Maya hieroglyphs by Dr. Mark van Stone (even though it is already nine years old).
Wow, it's so cool to see the Mayan characters written out by a human hand after centuries of lying dormant and misunderstood. Makes you wonder how the writing would have changed over time had history not played out the way it did. Would there be a modern Maya script that was less ornate, but suited to everyday writing? Can we develop one now? :)
IMO the most distinctive, evocative and beautiful writing system ever devised.
Beautiful. It's amazing how you can keep the glyph blocks going perfectly straight down like that. The book you did with Coe was excellent, I must have read it fourteen times.
Mu'z ra' tz'ib'anik...bonita forma de escribir(dibujar)...i like the way your hieroglyphics.
Imagine it still used nowadays , wow AWESOME
I spent weeks researching until I found this. Thank you so much.
This looks so complicated and different to what we are used to. It's beautiful.