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

Alternative readings: WAHYWAL
Translation: Waywal (deity name?)
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of waywal

MHD.PN2.1&2

 

                                                                                  

BMM9.p15.r2.c1                                                  Schele                                                Greene

PAL Tablet of the 96 Glyphs G3                         PAL Temple 17 E3                            PAL TS E11-F11/N11-O11

WAYWAL                                                                WAYWAL                                           BAAK:le WAYWAL

 

                                                                                           

Greene                   = Stuart-PTotS.p2                         Stuart-TPM.p131                             Stuart-TPM.p131                       

PAL Tablet of the 96 Glyphs G3                                 PAL TC Q3                                          PAL TC U14                                        

<BAAK:le>.<WAYWAL:la>                                           BAAK{el}.<WAYWAL[la]>                BAAK{el}.<WAYWAL[*la]>

 

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Greene                   = Stuart-PTotS.p2                    Stuart-TPM.p131                           Greene                                            Greene            

PAL Tablet of the 96 Glyphs I2                              PAL TC U1b                                     PAL TFC H3/O3                              PAL TS H9/Q9                             

<BAAK:le>.<wa:WAY:<wa[la]>>                            BAAK{el}:WAY:wa[la]                    BAAK{el}.<WAY:wa[la]>               <BAAK:le>.<wa:WAY:la>

 

 

Stuart    

PNG Stela 25 F2

<BAAK:le?>.<<WAY.wa>:<ya[la]>>

 

·     No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, TOK, 25EMC.

·     The BMM9 example is taken from PAL Tablet of the 96 Glyphs G3 (with <BAAK:le> and the end phonetic complement of la removed).

·     The readings of PAL Tablet of the 96 Glyphs I2 and PAL TFC H3/O3 are given in Boot-AtCoINYKM.p33.para5.l-4 (apparently, H3 was according to an older glyph-block labelling, superceded by O3).

·     The reading of PNG Stela 25 F2 is given in Pitts-BHPN.p44.

·     Stuart-PTotS is the article with glyph examples from PAL Tablet of the 96 Glyphs (G3 and I2) for the title Baakel Waywal, where I2 shows Waywal spelled in the more common and familiar style of wa-WAY-wa-la while G3 shows a logogram with la as the final phonetic complement. This substitution enables the reading of the logogram as WAYWAL. Another two instances of a logogram spelling of WAYWAL are on PAL TC Q3 and U14.

·     Baakel Waywal is a phrase, but Waywal itself can either be written with:

o WAYWAL – features an anthropomorphic head with:

§ A protrusive lower lip.

§ (Optionally) a thin, cross-hatched “crescent” (nearly 2/3 of a full circle) surrounding the eye (tips pointing left. i.e. surrounding the eye on the top, right, and bottom).

§ (Optionally) slightly curved / floppy (S or mirror-image Z) snake-like element running from the top right to the bottom left of the head.

§ (Optionally) wa end phonetic complement.

o Phonetically, using WAY = “sleep”, “dream as a rebus – WAY-wa-la, with wa and la coming after the WAY.