[This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.]
CMGG entry for paat1

Translation: back
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of paat1

A black and white drawing of a cartoon character Description automatically generated                                                                A cartoon character with a microphone in its mouth Description automatically generated                      

K&L.p25.#6.1                      K&L.p25.#6.2                     K&L.p25.#6.3                       TOK.p21.r3.c3                    T226

PAT                                       PAT                                      PAT                                        PAAT                                    -

 

                  

MHD.HT6                            0226st      0226md

PAAT?                                  PAAT                                     

 

                                                                 

Stuart-TIfTXIX.p70.pdfp37.fig41c                                 Stuart-TIfTXIX.p70.pdfp37.fig41c                                

CRC Stela 6 E7                                                                  CRC Stela 6 E8

<3:AJAW:?:ko>.<u.<*3:<<PAAT:ti>.li>>>                    u.<3:<<PAAT:ti>.li>>

 

  A drawing of a person lying on a bed Description automatically generated                                                                                                                        A drawing of a face Description automatically generated                                                                   

Mathews     = Stuart-TIfTXIX.p68.pdfp36.fig39                    Stuart-TIfTXIX.p68.pdfp36.fig39                               Stuart-TIfTXIX.p68.pdfp36.fig39                                   

TNA Monument 175 B2                                                           PAL Temple 19 Platform South Side F3                    PAL Temple 19 Platform South Side E4                                                

u.<2:PAAT:li>                                                                              <?.PAAT>.<“Starry Deer Crocodile”>                       <<tz’i:ba:la>.PAAT>.<“Starry Deer Crocodile”>

 

·    No glyphs given in K&H, BMM9.

·    The head is the small roundish element in the top left.

·    Bonn recognizes a “doubled” form – 0226md – where the basic form is back-to-back with a mirror image of itself.

·    The reading paat seems to be quite well established and accepted now, but Stuart-TIfTXIX.p70.pdfp37 (2005) has: The hunched body signs that precede the crocodile heads are otherwise rare elements, but there is some circumstantial evidence that they are to be read as logographs for PAAT, “back.” The image of the sign is certainly suggestive enough, but both phonetic and iconographic evidence can be cited as at least circumstantial support.

·    Do not confuse this with the visually similar T703, where the head is replaced by what might be a penis, sometimes known as “AAT-headed body” (lost reference). In the CMGG, it’s been given the nickname “PHB” = “penis-headed body”). It’s given in TOK.p21.r3.c4, with no pronunciation. See also “PHB”. See “PHB” in the CMGG.

 

A black and white drawing of a cartoon Description automatically generated

TOK.p21.r3.c4

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T703

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·    Do not confuse this with the homonym paat 2 = “(crested) lizard”, “basilisk”.