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

Translation: sweat-bath
Part of speech: Noun

Spellings of pib naah

                        A drawing of a dragon  Description automatically generated

JM.p207.#3                    JM.p207.#4

<pi.<bi:NAAH>>.AJ        <<pi:bi>.NAAH>:li

 

A black and white drawing of a cartoon character  Description automatically generated                                                                 A cartoon of a mouse  Description automatically generated                                                                                       

Houston-SSotM.p135.pdfp5.col2.fig4A                     Houston-SSotM.p135.pdfp5.col2.fig4B                     Houston-SSotM.p135.pdfp5.col2.fig4C                    

PAL TC Alfarda G2                                                          PAL TS Alfarda G2                                                          PAL TFC Alfarda G2                                                         

u.<<<pi:bi>.NAAH>:li>                                                   u.<<<pi:bi>.NAAH>:li>                                                  u.<<<pi:bi>.NAAH>:li>                                                 

 

Houston-SSotM.p136.pdfp6.col2.fig5A                    

PAL TC Sanctuary Door Jamb Ap6

u:<<pi:bi>.NAAH>:li

 

·     Dorota Bojkowska: The pib naah = “sweat bath” can be real (used by rulers for rituals) or metaphorical (the inner sanctuary of a temple was referred to as a pib naah, even if there was no actual oven or water present):

o AT-E1168-lecture19.t0:30:27-30:54: The sanctuary of the temple is called pib naah – literally a pit oven, [a] sweat bath. So the gods, they're perpetually in a sweat bath – the sanctuary is a place where they get the heat, the warmth. And it's not a functional sweat bath – there's no place for real fire. It was meant to function in any way like a real sweat bath, like a real sweat lodge.

o AT-E1168-lecture21.t0:34:21-34:41: And then the sanctuaries of temples are called pib naah – they’re called sweat baths. [It’s the] same idea, because the gods can be rejuvenated, and be supported, sustained by [being] symbolically placed inside those sweat lodges, inside those clay oven pits, literally.

·     The MHD objabbr values for the PAL Cross-Group Temples objects:

o Alfardas:

§ TC: PALTCB

§ TFC: PALTFCB

§ TS: PALTSB

o Jambs:

§ TC: PALTCDJ

§ TFC: PALTFCJ

§ TS: PALTSDJ