CMGG entry for syllabogram ho      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide and Concordance.)

Variant: hand

                                       

MC                                JM = 25EMC.2             TOK.p20.r2.c3               MHD.MZ3.1&2

 

25EMC.1&3&4

 

·     Not listed in the syllabogram tables of K&H, K&L, BMM9, only in TOK, 25EMC (and MC).

·     MHD reads this as jo, in every context, including the very common ch’ahoom (which is therefore transcribed ch’ajoom).

·     The outline of this glyph is a left fist, viewed from the back of the hand. It is one of four glyphs with this characteristic:

o cha: IK’ in the top left.

o k’a: horizontally stretched, cross-hatched, inverted-U in the top left.

o ho: 3 non-touching dots in a triangular formation, pointing downwards.

o (One variant of) Glyph-G7: with the head of a young man below and a NAAH on the left of both.

The bottom left has a 180-degrees rotated curved-L with one or two reinforcing lines to the right.

·     In the hand variant of ho, the dots are optionally darkened / cross-hatched. They can even have crossed bands (25EMC.1&2), or the top one can be a LEM (MHD.MZ3.1).

 

Variant: human head

                                                                             

K&H = K&L = 25EMC.5             TOK.p25.r1.c1                    TOK.p18.r1.c2                          BMM9

CPN Stela N Altar B2                

ho                                                jo                                         jo

 

                                               

M&G.p105.3                  Zender-BH.p9.fig7                  AT-E1168-lecture15.t0:21:21                                                          

                                         CPN Stela N Altar B2              PNG Panel 2 T1                                                                                   

 

Looper

QRG Stela C K1

 

·     Given in all 5 reference sources – K&H, K&L, TOK, BMM9, 25EMC, but TOK gives a reading jo rather than ho.

·          This has traditionally been read as jo, but now ho, according to the “Russian school”, no paper yet; BeliaevEtAl-NGA.p357.pdfp7.fn1: Evidence for the reading of “Thick-Lipped Head” as ho (with glottal spirant) and not jo (with velar spirant) will be presented in a forthcoming paper (Davletshin n.d.).

·     Zender-BH.p9.fig7 = Zender-BH.p10.c1.l+11 (part of K’ahk’ Hoplaj Chan K’awiil).

·     AT-E1168-lecture15.t0:21:21 is from ta.<[ho]mo> u k’a ba TUUN.ni è Tahoom (formerly Tajoom) Uk’ab Tuun.

·     TOK.p18.r1.c2 is the head variant of ho. It looks almost identical to the head variant of LEM, which is TOK.p18.r1.c1 LEM? (with a question mark). The only difference is the element infixed in the middle of the right side:

o LEM? / TOK.p18.r1.c1 has a LEM.

o ho / TOK.p18.r1.c2 has the “bone property marker” (= oval with three non-touching dots along the long axis of the oval)