CMGG entry for el1      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide and Concordance.)

Translation: exit; emerge
Part of speech: Verb

Logogram spellings of el1

                                                              

TOK.p15.r4.c1               MatL2022.workshop.t0:22:04                

EL / LAK                          EL (“exit”)                                                   

 

TOK.p28.r3.c4

EL / LAK

 

·     The “exit” meaning of EL (graphically without the “fire” on top) is not listed in EB, but EB.p63.pdfp68.#8 gives: elk’in cn. “east”.

·     See also EL = “burn”.

·     TOK.p28.r3.c4 gives an animal? head variant with a Waterlily Serpent underneath, with a bone jaw.

·     Features:

o A basic boulder outline, divided into a smaller top part and a larger bottom part.

o The top part is essentially a rectangle with a reinforced floor.

o The bottom part has an infixed K’IN in the middle of the top, hanging from the ceiling. The very top of the K’IN is obscured by the ceiling, as if the K’IN has “risen” into it slightly and disappeared behind it.