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

Translation: hammer
Part of speech: Verb

Logogram spellings of baj

                                                                         

K&L.p27.#4 = Zender-BH.p1.fig1.a-c                        TOK.p7.r4.c4                               BMM9.p11.r4.c1                      25EMC.pdfp30.2.1&2&3 = K&L.p27.#4.1&3&2

BAJ                                                                                  BAJ                                                BAJ                                             

 

 

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BAJ

 

·     No glyphs given in K&H.

·     Features:

o Can be a boulder, but usually a flint shape.

o An element resembling a “W” divides the flint or boulder into two:

§ One half has the regular internal elements of TUUN/ku/KAWAK and WITZ, namely a “pool of water” and “grapes”/“stalactite” (though the “grapes”/“stalactite” are often absent).

§ The other half has a “river band” – two parallel wavy lines, with parallel wavy elements consisting of non-touching dots, on each side of the wavy line (though this is sometimes absent from one of the sides).

·     Zender-BH is the paper where this reading was formally proposed and justified in detail, now generally well-accepted. The word is most commonly encountered in the inflected form bajlaj, found, for example in the name Bajlaj Chan K’awiil, a ruler of DPL. It forms one of a set of “affective verbs” – verbs involving repetition and intensity.

 

Syllabogram spellings of baj

                                                                                          

K&H.p73. DP HS stair 4, step5 = Zender-BH.p2.fig2.a.1                 Zender-BH.p2.fig2.c

<ba{j}:la>.ja                                                                                            <ba{j}:la{j}>.<[CHAN]K’AWIIL>