·     No glyph given in K&H, TOK (TOK has UH, but for “necklace”, not for “moon”).

·     The iconographic origin of this glyph is the crescent moon, with the two points meeting at the top being the endpoints of the crescent. It’s used to write the word “moon” as the logogram UH, but it’s also the syllabogram ja. There are no distinguishing characteristics between these two usages – it’s the “same” glyph, distinguished only by context. MHD distinguishes them with a lowercase suffix to the 3-letter MHD character code – ZU1a and ZU1s respectively:

o MHD.ZU1a: used as logogram UH. A search in “Classic - Blocks” on “blcodes contains UAZ1a” gives 63 hits with the following usage statistics:

§ and “blcodes contains PL1b” gives 19 hits: Ixiim Uh = “Maize God Moon”.

§ and “blcodes contains PLB” gives 3 hits: Ix Uh = “Lady Moon”.

§ and “blcodes contains ST6a” gives 9 hits: Chuwaj Uh = “Jaguar God of the Underworld Moon”.

§ and “blcodes contains ZHE” and “blcodes contains AA2” gives 17 hits: infixed into the ISIG as the patron of the Haab month Ch’en.

§ and “blcodes does not contain “PL1b, PLB, ST6a, ZHE, AA2” gives 17 hits: none of the above.

o MHD.ZU1b: used as syllabogram ja. A search in “Classic - Blocks” on “blcodes contains UAZ1s” gives 2,750 hits.

The statistical analysis shows that the crescent moon glyph is used far more as ja than as UH.

·     Variants (3):

o A. Full form:

§ The outer form represents a crescent moon.

§ The 3 non-touching dots in the bay represent water (in the cave which is formed by the crescent, the home of the Moon Goddess).

§ As the moon brings rain; the cross-hatching represents darkness and death.

§ The 3 touching dots represent maize kernels.

§ BMM9 has a full cross-hatched circle in the bay instead of 3 dots è in most other contexts (with full cross-hatched circle), this is K’AL.

o B. Reduced form:

§ It can be the left or right half of the full form.

§ It occurs as a matter of course in Glyph-C of the SS. There is no consensus on an UH- or ja-reading in that context:

·       MHD reads them all as ja.

·       The “Russian school” read them as UH.

o C. Head:

§ K&L only gives head variant, no boulder variant for UH (it treats the non-head variants as ja).

§ The only source to give the head variant is K&L – would be good to have other examples where it is read UH and means “moon”. MHD gives quite a few, but views this as a conflation of an unknown head-glyph with the UH glyph – i.e. the head is not just a “head variant” of the partial .

§ It is a human head (female) with a reduced (half) form of the boulder variant infixed.

§ What is the small element protruding from her nose?

·       Sim: check Harri’s dissertation “Nasal Motifs in Maya Iconography (Kettunen, revised edition 2006)”.

·       Could be a stingray-spine nose piercing, like one of the Paddler Gods?

·     MHD distinguishes two glyphs by function, but not by appearance – both the full form and the reduced form are assigned the same code ZU1a if they are functioning as a logogram and ZU1s if they are functioning as a syllabogram.

·     EB.p80.pdfp85.#7: IX ‘UH è ix uh “moon deity”.