CMGG entry for way2      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.)

Translation: cenote
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of way2

                                                        

K&L.p9.#1 [K&L.p9.#1.4 = 25EMC.pdfp50.#9.4]                           TOK.p30.r2.c2                 BMM9.p19.r1.c3          25EMC.pdfp50.#9.1 = JM.p266.#2

WAY                                      WAY                                                        WAY                                  WAY                               WAY                               WAY

 

·    No glyphs given in K&H for the meaning of WAY = “cenote”.

·    Martin-GBoLMotMC.t0:14:00: From the point of view of the iconography, this represents simultaneously a hole in the ground as well as centipede pincers.

·    Do not confuse this with the homonym way 1 “spirit companion / alter ego / sleep / dream (are the glyphs interchangeable when writing?).

·    The “cenote”-WAY is used to write WAY:HAAB è wayhaab = “wayeb”, the last month of the HAAB date of the calendar round.