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

Translation: turtle (freshwater turtle)
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of waw

                                     

25EMC.pdfp50.#7.1&2                                          MHD.AK7.1&2                                                1681st

WAW                                                                         WAW                                                               WAAW

 

                                                                                                                           

MHD (Kerr)     = Closs-Iaak.p9.pdfp3.fig1               MHD (Looper & Polyukhovych)               MHD (Looper)               MHD (Kerr)               

K772 H (= MHD.AK7.1)                                              K1261 Q (= 25EMC.pdfp50.#7.1)             K4961 O                         K8955 Y                     

WAW                                                                            WAW                                                            WAW                              WAW                         

 

                                                                                             

MHD (Hellmuth)                                                  MHD (Eberl)                                       

Unprovenienced Bowl, LC.cb2.112 P               Unprovenienced Plate Q                  

WAW                                                                     WAW                                                    

 

                                                                    

MHD (Moholy-Nagy & Coe)                    MHD (W. Coe)                    MHD (W. Coe)

Miscellaneous Text 359 A2                     TIK Stela 8 A4                      TIK Stela 8 B3a

WAW                                                           WAW                                    WAW

 

·    No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, TOK, BMM9 – 25EMC is the only (printed pedagogical) source listing this glyph.

·    An MHD search on “blcodes contains AK7” gives 24 hits (2024-08-02), all as part of a personal name:

o 2 on jade carvings.

§ MHD.AK7.2 is from a jade plaque of uncertain provenience.

o 1 is from a wooden floor in Tikal.

o 11 on ceramics or other small vessels.

§ 25EMC.pdfp50.#7.1 is from K1261 Q.

§ 25EMC.pdfp50.#7.2 is from TIK MT 217 G.

§ MHD.AK7.1 is from K772 H.

§ The unprovenienced plate is from Robicsek and Hales 1981:155, fig. 57.

§ 7 of the 11 vessels are from the Tikal region.

o 10 on monuments:

§ 1 from Altar de Sacrificios.

§ 1 from Naachtun.

§ 5 from Tamarindito.

§ 2 from Tikal (TIK Stela 8).

§ 1 from Yaxchilan.

·    With 10 examples from Tikal or the Tikal region it would appear that WAW was quite a popular term there, perhaps because of the name of the Tikal ruler K’inich Waw, who formerly had the nickname “Animal Skull”.

·    Similarly, the 5 examples from TAM (Tamarindito) are from two stelae – Stela 2 and Stela 4 – and all write the name of Waw Chan K'inich, presumably a ruler of TAM.