Variant: insect
MC K&H JM TOK.p7.r6.c4
MC
MC
K&H TOK.p22.r2.c4
Sub-variants (3):
· A. Full form – insect head:
o Bony insect with two front fangs and left and right blood scrolls coming from the mouth.
o Nose hole.
o Kidney-shaped eye with ends pointing up.
o Oval with three non-touching dots.
· B. Reduced variant 1 – just the blood scrolls making up three elements (two outside and one short one in the middle):
o Outside elements: blood scrolls or rounded crescents.
o Middle element: two or three (usually) touching dots.
· C. Reduced variant 2 – just the blood scrolls making up three elements (two outside and one long one in the middle):
o Outside elements: tight blood scrolls or rounded crescents.
o Middle element: one long band that sticks out like a tongue.
Variant: head
MED MED
CHN Casa Colorado Frieze glyph-block 5 CHN Casa Colorado Frieze glyph-block 30
<*jo:ji>.<?:ya> <pu:lu>.<ji:ya>
MED
CHN Casa Colorado Frieze glyph-block 5
u.<ti:ya>
Head (sole) sub-variant:
· An anthropomorphic head with vertical bar down the middle, from top to bottom.
· This appears to be a post-Classic – perhaps also regionally restricted – form, as there are only three occurrences in the MHD database, and they are all from CHN. And not only just from CHN, but from just one single monument in CHN.
Variant: full-figure
M&G.p122
YAX Throne 2 glyph-block #4
<ya.YAXUUN:ni>:BAHLAM
· Full-figure:
o The skeletal head, shoulders, and arm in the top left of M&G.p122 is the full-figure variant of ya – the blood-sucking insect.