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

Translation: mountain
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of witz

                                     

K&H.p87                        K&H.p18                     K&H.p45.r5.c3 EGs                

WITZ                              wi:WITZ                       <K’AN:na>.<WITZ:NAL:AJAW>

 

                                             

K&L.p8.#1                                                                          TOK.p12.r5.c4               BMM9.p13.r5.c1          JM.p270.#2

WITZ                                                                                   WITZ                               WITZ                               WITZ

 

                                                                                  A close up of a drawing  Description automatically generated                                    

BMM9.p19.r6.c4  = TOK.p26.r4.c2 = KuppratApp                YAX Lintel 10 B4b                   

WITZ                                                                                              wi:WITZ                                   

 

                                                       

K&L.p8.#1                     Grube-WwH.p171.fig5.c                    Gronemeyer-LoTiMHW.p91.fig3j

                                                                                                       CRC Stela 3 B15a (Beetz)

WITZ                              WITZ                                                       3:WITZ:a{‘}

 

·     Variants (3):

o A. “boulder” – features:

§ Boulder with one or more indentations on the outside.

§ The (bold) perimeter has one or more scrolls sticking into the inside of the boulder (often coinciding with the indentations on the outside).

§ One or both of “stalactite” ”/ “grapes” and “pool of water” (but must have one of the two) inside the boulder.

o B. Bird head – features:

§ A bird head.

§ One or both of “stalactite” / “grapes” and “pool of water” (but must have one of the two) infixed in the head.

§ In BMM9 = TOK = KuppratApp:

·       The “pool of water” is in the eye of the bird.

·       The bird is eating a worm or snake (a scroll with a dotted spine comes out of the mouth of the bird and curls to the right). This is similar to the worm or snake being eaten by the bird in the bird-head variant of li.

o C. Waterlily Serpent – features:

§ The boulder variant above the head of the Waterlily Serpent.

§ The Waterlily Serpent here is very flattened, compared to how it appears elsewhere (for example, in WITZ’). This is perhaps not surprising as there is a large rock on its head (as opposed to water on top of the head in WITZ’).

·     The “boulder” variant of WITZ has elements in common with TUUN/ku, namely a “pool of water” and a “stalactite/grapes” – the distinguishing characteristic is that WITZ has a large proportion (sometimes all) of the inside in bold, with “curly” arcs protruding into the inside of the boulder, in contrast to TUUN/ku which has the plainer outer outline.

·     Do not confuse this with the phonetically almost identical WITZ’ which means “Waterlily Serpent”.

 

Syllabogram spellings of witz

                    

JM.p270.#3                     Polyukhovych

                                          CNC Panel 1 O6

wi:tzi                                 wi.tzi