·    TOK.p10.r2.c2 gives  as ITZAM; BMM9.p10.r3.c4 gives   as ITZAM – there could be some connection between the two preceding examples and all the ones below; i.e. they might be read as ITZAM-YIHK’IN or YIHK’IN-ITZAM [Dorota: this is well-established]

 

                                                                                     

K&L.p65.G9.3 = MC.p50.G9.3               Gronemeyer-GGF.p11.pdfp11.fig10.g    

                                                                   QRG Stela F C6a / A6a                   

 

 

                                                                                                                                 

Gronemeyer-GGF.p11.pdfp11.fig10.a               Gronemeyer-GGF.p11.pdfp11.fig10.f (Looper)               Gronemeyer-GGF.p11.pdfp11.fig10.h

CPN Stela 63 B9                                                     QRG Stela E D5a                                                                    TIK Stela 27 D1

 

                                                                                             

K&L.p65.G9.6  = Gronemeyer-GGF.p11.pdfp11.fig10.e                             K&H.p51.TabVIII.9

                              NAR HS 1 Step V J3

 

MHD CPN 107 lower step R1a

 

·    There 3 “available” components – NAL, YIHK’IN, “old man head”/ITZAM, and 2 of the 3 are always present:

o NAL+YIHK’IN, or

o YIHK’IN+ITZAM, or

o NAL+ITZAM

but sometimes all three. The ITZAM can be just the “net headdress” or just the “old man’s head” or both.

·    Do not confuse the NAL-variant of Glyph-G₉ with the NAL-variant of Glyph-G₂:

o Glyph-G₉ (this glyph): NAL + YIHK’IN

o Glyph-G₂: (“old variant of HUL”) + NAL + mo

·    MHD takes a different approach. MHD recognizes two distinct ways of writing the word ihk’in = “darken”.

o MHD.PA8:

§ An old man’s head with an infixed K’IN, with the K’IN being “half darkened” (e.g., the right half crosshatched).

§ The “picture” field in the MHD Catalog has “aged deity with half-darkened sun headdress and foliage”. [Sim: However, there are only two examples and one of them has the foliage and the other doesn’t. At the same time, there are many real-life instances of Glyph-G₉ where NAL is read, when there’s a leaf-related element present. For this reason, it might be better just to omit the “foliage” part of the description of the glyph, and just transliterate and read a NAL è -(n)al when it’s present.]

The old man’s head and K’IN are treated as a single logogram IHK’IN = “darken” not as a combination of an old-man’s head logogram with infixed K’IN. I.e., the whole combination is read IHK’IN, rather than that the old man’s head contributes a separate and independent ih(k’-) to the k’in of the infixed darkened sun. (Though that might have been the origin of the glyph in the distant past.)

o MHD.ZK1:

§ A (boulder outline) “half darkened” K’IN with (optionally) a horizontally rectangular tri-partite element on top.

§ The tri-partite element consists of three horizontally touching circles, and the two outer circles can be partially darkened.

These two elements are also treated as a single logogram IHK’IN = “darken”. I.e., the combination is read ihk’in, without the tri-partite contributing a separate, independent ih(k’-) to the k’in of the darkened sun. Indeed, if anything the (half-)darkening would be contributing the ih(k’-), leaving no “phonetic” role for the tri-partite element.

·    Whatever the analysis, the old man’s head (in the context of being Glyph-G₉) is never read as ITZAM.