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

Variant: flint with tied down fork

                               

MC                                   JM                                        TOK.p6.r2.c3

 

             

K&H                                    

 

Add the 2-tine on top and 2-tine at bottom examples.

 

·    Less subject to bolded walls and ceiling than the variant with bumps and wood

 

Sub-variants (3)

·    A. Three tines at top and three tines at bottom.

·    B. Three tines at top and two tines at bottom .

·    C. Two tines at top and three tines at bottom.

·    [The form with two tines at the top and two tines at the bottom doesn’t seem to exist.]

 

Variant: flint with bumps and wood

                                                 

MC                                     K&H                                    JM                                        

 

TOK.p6.r2.c4

 

·    More subject to bolded walls and ceiling than the variant with tied down fork.

 

Sub-variants (2)

·    A. One 3-bump line from ceiling to floor, with a curved band from the ceiling to the 3-bump line, and off curved band, two touching dots.

·    B. Two 3-bump lines from ceiling to floor (mirror images of one another). Now the curved band goes from one 3-bump line to the other, with two touching dots off the curved band.

 

Variant: bird head

                                               

BMM9.p4 = K&L.p53           TOK.p26.r4.c3                   MHD.BT5 [MHD.BT5.2 = EKB Acropolis M96G O1]

 

                                                                                             

Coll-1 (Schele)                    Coll-1 (Grube)                                         Coll-1 (Lacadena)                           Schele

CPN Stela P C4                   CRC B16-sub Stucco p19                       EKB Acropolis M96G O1               PAL PT P5

3:wi{n}:<ti.ki>                     <K’UH{ul}:K’AN:tu>.<ma:ki>                u.<ki:ti>                                           PIK.<ki:yi>

 

·    Features:

o Bird head with trilobate element over the eye.

o (Optional): the top right has a feather-element (resembling syllabogram o), bent into an L-shape to fit into the top right corner.

o (Optional): an inverted u-shape protector over the eye, with (optionally) a dotted spine.

·    A search in MHD with “blcodes contains BT5” gives 10 hits, but only CPN Stela P C4, CRC B16-sub Stucco p19, and (slightly less clearly) EKB Acropolis M96G O1 show the distinct trilobate element over the eye. The reading of PAL PT P5b (top) as ki (despite the lack of a trilobate element over the eye) is from MHD.

·    Drawing credits and glyph-block references are from MHD as the drawings I have access to are uncredited and have not been provided with glyph-block labels.

 

Variant: face

TOK.p12.r2.c4

ki?

 

·    Three-crescent face (tips pointing upwards), half in darkness.