CMGG entry for pik1      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide and Concordance.)

Alternative readings: PIH
Translation: calendar unit baktun
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of pik1

A black and white drawing of two mushrooms Description automatically generated                   A black and white drawing of two faces Description automatically generated                

K&H.p55.#1.2                    TOK.p36.r1.c1                     25EMC.pdfp45.#5.2

PIK / PIKHAAB?                  PIK                                         PIK / PIH

 

                    

K&L.p62.#1                                                                                                                                                              IC.p16.pdfp20.#5.1

PIK                                                                                                                                                                             BAK’TUUN / PIK

 

A black and white drawing of a cartoon animal Description automatically generated                                                                               A black and white drawing of a face Description automatically generated

K&H.p55.#1.1  = BMM9.p13.r4.c4              TOK.p27.r2.c3                    25EMC.pdfp45.#5.1&3&4

PIK / PIKHAAB?   PIK                                       PIK                                       PIK / PIH

 

                  A black and white image of a face and a face Description automatically generated                        

K&L.p62.#2                                                                              iC.p16.pdfp20.#5.3&4                     Montgomery = Coll-1                 

                                                                                                                                                               YAX HS2 Step 7 M1

PIK                                                                                             BAK’TUUN / PIK                                9.PIK

 

                                    

K&L.p62.#2.9                              IC.p16.pdfp20.#5.5                    [IC.p16.pdfp20.#5.6 = K&L.p62.#2.9]

YAX Lintel 48 B3-B4                   PAL PT A3-B4

PIK                                                BAK’TUUN / PIK

 

A black and white drawing of a symbol Description automatically generated                                                                                                                                

Houston-HaHaDP.p109.fig4.11                   Stuart                                          Stuart-TIfTXIX.p61.fig34                                          Schele

DPL HS4 Step 1 B1                                         LAC Panel 1 A3                          PAL Temple 19 Platform Passage S-1 B1               PAL PT P5

9.PIK                                                                 9.PIK                                            12.PIK                                                                          PIK.<ki:yi>

 

                                     A black spiral with lines Description automatically generated with medium confidence

MHD.ZHA.1&2&3                                                       0285bv                      0285bb

PIK                                                                                 -                                   -

 

                                

25EMC.pdfp9.r5.c2                       IC.p16.pdfp20.#5.2

PIH                                                    BAK’TUUN / PIK

 

·     BMM9 does not give a boulder variant of PIK.

·     Variants (5):

o A. Abstract:

§ Two KAWAKs next to one another.

§ (Optionally) a hi (reduced (“knot”) variant) – when present it should be read as PIH rather than PIK?

o B. Head:

§ AT-E1168-lecture6.t0:34:55-36:55 discusses the head variants of PIK, WINIKHAAB, and HAAB. For PIK, Tokovinine explains that:

·       It’s a raptorial bird with a “darkness” element (making it a nocturnal bird).

·       [Sim: note that this is the bird-head which does not have HIX infixed in the eye, unlike WINIKHAAB and HAAB, instead there’s a “left feeler” in the eye.]

·       It has a human hand instead of the lower part of the beak.

§ Summary of distinguishing characteristics: a bird-head (usually with two o feathers, one on each side of the head) with hand-jaw, and with (optionally) the “darkness” property marker in the forehead.

o C. Full figure:

§ So far, only PAL PT and YAX Lintel 48.

o D. CHAN-sky-like:

§ Top: CHAN = sky.

§ Bottom: wa / wu.

That this is a separate glyph is supported by MHD, which does not consider it to be CHAN + wu/wa, but instead an independent variant of PIK: MHD.ZHA. It gives 7 hits for a search “blcodes contains ZHA”. Bonn does the same, with 0285bv. In addition, Bonn recognizes a “reduced form” of this variant, with just the “legs” at the bottom. This is probably part of the well-known phenomenon of the bottom of a full variant of a glyph “sticking out” at the bottom from “behind” another main sign which has been put in front of it (relative to the reader), in the same way as reduced forms of NAL or AJAW “stick out” at the top.

o E. HAAB-based:

§ Top: Two KAWAKs next to one another.

§ Bottom: HAAB.