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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
I do not trust the word of spaniards from the 16th century, and there is not much factual evidence aside from their written accounts..
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some of the old spanish friars who lived in the times just after the settlement of the country could read and even write the maya script but they regarded it as evil or as being a native tongue of no value and so didn't preserve it.
in 1575 Bishop Landa attempted to write down the Maya alphabet through finding out from the natives, but he was highly unpopular with them as he had almost completely destroyed all their literary treasures, so in revenge they misled him as to the true meanings of the various symbols.
so as we have no mayan writing we can only hazard a guess at what the spaniards might have twisted to suit their own ends.