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

Translation: bird
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of muut

                                                                                        

TOK.p27.r4.c1 = BMM9.p19.r5.c2                           von Euw                                          

                                                                                       XLM Coloumn 3 A6a                     

MUUT                                                                           MUT:ti                                             

 

MHD.BX1.1&2&3

MUT

 

·     EB.p131.pdfp136.#7 gives only two references for a MUUT: YAX Throne 1 and XLM Column 3 A6a. I’m unable to find a drawing of YAX Throne 1, but XLM Column 3 seems to be the inscription on which TOK.p27.r4.c1 = BMM9.p19.r5.c2 are based.

·     MHD search statistics:

o An MHD search on “blcode contains BX1” gives 27 hits.

o Slightly more than half being for the name Sak Hix Muut. The remaining ones don’t cluster around any other name or context.

§ Sak Hix Muut (14 hits):

·       Tikal (12 hits):

o    Tikal Stela 31 (2 hits).

o    Tikal Temple of the Inscriptions Panel U (10 hits).

·       Non-Tikal (2 hits): IXL (Ixlu) and TET (= Tetitla (Teotihuacan)).

§ Other = not Sak Hix Muut (13 hits):

·       No obvious pattern to the combinations which MHD.BX1 appears in (hard to see in MHD even if there is a pattern, as my query just selects the desired glyph-blocks and not the surrounding ones).

·       No obvious pattern to the sites it occurs in.

·     Summary: this logogram is most commonly seen in Tikal, and there almost exclusively on one monument – Tikal Temple of the Inscriptions Panel U, in connection with Sak Hix Muut.

 

Syllabogram spellings of muut

                

JM.p174.#3                      JM.p174.#4

mu:ti                                  mu:ti

 

·     JM.p174.#4: the bird head could be part of the mu, except that in that case, the scroll is usually to the left of the bird head. This could be a total misreading by JM, for yebet.