·     This has been nicknamed the “eclipse glyph” and has long been thought to mean an eclipse, of either the sun or the moon (depending on the infixed element).

·     This glyph is found almost exclusively in the codices. There are only three known examples not from the codices:

o SEP Stela 3:

§ SEP = Santa Elena Poco Uinic, a.k.a. just Poco Uinic, Chiapas.

§ Bonn lists SEP as the 3-character code for Santa Elena Poco Uinic but Prager-IT326aLfN.pdfp1.para1.l+4 & Prager-IT326aLfN.pdfp3.para1.l+6 has STE.

§ Both drawings are of the same glyph, by different artists. The monument it comes from is not further specified in Love-TEG, but that it is Stela 3 is known from Prager-IT326aLfN.pdfp1.fig1 & Prager-IT326aLfN.pdfp3.para1.l+8.

o K5359.

o A fragment of stone carving from CPN.

·     Pronunciation:

o Prager-IT326aLfN (2006) proposed a reading of NAAM, based on:

§ A syllabogram spelling of na-mu in the Dresden Codex. (I’m unsure of the location of the na-mu spelling in the photo of the section of the Dresden Codex provided in Prager-IT326aLfN.pdfp1.fig1.).

§ An end phonetic complement of ma in the SEP Stela 3 glyph.

§ The existence of cognates in Colonial Yucatec and modern Ch’orti’ with the meaning “to hide, put out sight, disappear, wane, vanish, dearth, lack, setting (of the moon or sun), lose sight of, lose memory”.

o TOK.p36.r4.c2 (2017) seems to have accepted a modified form of this and lists it as NAM (intended to be short, as TOK consistently writes long vowels as long).

o For the codical glyph, Love-TEG.17.c2.para7 (2017) proposes yihk’in for the flanking “wing” elements, and yihk’in k’in and yihk’in uh respectively, for when the k’in-glyph and the uh-glyph are flanked by the “wing” elements. He associates these paired elements with the (Y)IHK’IN – the “half-darkened K’IN-glyph” (see next bullet point).

·     Love-TEG (2017) is a paper devoted to explaining that the “eclipse glyph” in the codices is different from the SEP Stela 3 glyph:

o Differences:

§ The SEP Stela 3 glyph has two crossed bands, which the glyph in the codices never has.

§ The SEP Stela 3 glyph rests on a “tripartite pedestal”, which the glyph in the codices never has.

§ The SEP Stela 3 glyph lacks the “dark and light fields”, which the glyph in the codices very often has.

o Love-TEG:

§ Says that the SEP Stela 3 glyph does perhaps indeed represent an actual eclipse (and is arguably read NAAM/NAM).

§ Explains that the sections of the codices commonly thought to be about eclipses are not in fact so, because of timing considerations: the relevant events occur far more frequently than eclipses do.

§ Argues that the “eclipse glyph” in the codices doesn’t so much represent an eclipse as rain clouds obscuring either the sun or the moon, and that (for that reason) it’s not read as NAM/NAAM.

§ Proposes a reading of yihk’in k’in and yihk’in uh for when the sun or moon is infixed, respectively.

§ Summary – Love-TEG.p19.pdfp19.c1.para2: Prager posits the ma suffix on the Poco Uinic eclipse glyph as supportive, a phonetic complement to naam, but since the Poco Uinic glyph is a different sign altogether (as I hope I demonstrated, above), the three-circled ma suffix at Poco Uinic does not shore up the reading naam for the Postclassic “eclipse glyph”.

o Of the 16 distinct examples from the codices provided in the paper:

§ They come from all three of the codices currently held in Europe.

§ The infixed sun occurs more often than the infixed moon – 12 vs. 4, with 1 uncertain (Love-TEG.p2.fig1a).

§ Of the 4 examples with infixed moon:

·       2 occur as the second member of a pair (the second glyph of each pair in Love-TEG.p2.fig1f & Love-TEG.p2.fig1k), with the first member being the glyph with infixed sun.

·       (Only) 2 occur on their own (Love-TEG.p2.fig1e & Love-TEG.p2.fig1i).

o Love-TEG.p20.pdfp20.fig25 points out that the “eclipse glyph” also occurs as the bottom or top half of two of the variants of Glyph-X – the ones which are associated with the 3^rd and 4^th of the 9 lunations which are governed by DG/Kimi; i.e. when Glyph-C = DG (see Glyph-X for examples). In this context, it is also the case that either K’IN or UH can be infixed.