Variant: boulder

·    Features – a vertically rectangular, bipartite glyph:

o Top: “butterfly”/“bowtie” variant of ma.

o Bottom – boulder outline, with, inside:

§ Top: bold curved V with dotted reinforcement below.

§ Bottom: blades of grass (optionally paired)

·    This glyph is a boulder outline with two infixed elements (a “necklace” and “blades of grass”) in common with a number of other glyphs. The list below shows the unique element infixed in the top which distinguishes them from one another:

o ba: LEM-like element.

o ma: right-side-up AJAW-face.

o t’u: KAWAK.

o tz’e: a slightly curved, bold V with “dot protector” underneath (the “dot protector” replaces the “necklace”, and the bold V can sometimes be non-bold). It’s a slightly aberrant member of the family because:

§ The element infixed in the top in all the others is roundish / boulder-outline, whereas the one in tz’e is triangular.

§ There’s a “dotted necklace” in the others (dots curved in an arc, slightly varying in size), whereas the dots in tz’e are all the same size, much smaller, and form a V.

§ All the others consist only of the boulder outline, with nothing on top, whereas tz’e has the “butterfly”/“bowtie” variant of ma on top.

o tz’u: K’IN.

o HA’: cross hatched circle.

o “IMIX”: cross hatched circle or LEM-like element (usually distinguished from HA’ by the blood cartouche).

·    Stuart-GfRaL.p3.para2.l-3 entertains the possibility that this is tz’e derived from TZ’EH (meaning “right” as in “right vs. left”).