TOK.p10.r2.c2 BMM9.p10.r3.c4 25EMC.pdfp36.#5.1&2
ITZAM ITZAM ITZAM
BMM9.p14.r2.c2 TOK.p25.r4.c3 25EMC.pdfp36.#5.3
ITZAM ITZAM
BMM9.p14.r2.c3 TOK.p25.r5.c4
ITZAM-KOKAJ ITZAM-KOKAJ
· No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, CMC4.
· Caution: Itzam(na) is not God N. God N is associated with Pawahtuun (old spelling Pauahtun). Wikipedia:
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacab: Bacab [...] is the generic Yucatec Maya name for the four prehispanic aged deities of the interior of the earth and its water deposits. [...] The Bacabs are also referred to as Pauahtuns.
o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzamna: Itzamna was an active creator god, [... he]] was the creator of humankind, and also the father of Bacab [...], a fourfold deity of the interior of the earth.
· The whole complex of Itzam, Itzamnaaj, Kokaaj, Itzam-Kokaaj is a very vexed question:
o Which glyph is which?
o Is Itzam(naaj) the same as God D?
· Variants (2):
o A. Knot – features:
§ A long, horizontal, tripartite glyph.
§ Resembles a knot, with a “loop” on the left and a “loop” on the right, with a “knot” in the middle – one of the loops may be leaf-like, with a much thinner parallel leaf above it.
§ The outer sides of the two loops can be bold or reinforced, the insides of the two loops have cross-hatching.
§ The middle usually also has cross-hatching.
o B. Head – features:
§ An old man’s head (with).
§ A round / bulbous nose.
§ Sunken cheeks from a toothless mouth.
§ Two short parallel arcs on the cheeks indicating wrinkles.
§ Optionally an upside-down la-face as the bottom element of a tri-partite “complex ear”.
§ A washer on the right – either as a partitive disk or as the middle element of a tri-partite “complex ear”.
§ A headdress with cross-hatching, very vaguely resembling the Knot variant.