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Originally Posted by sonicpixie
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.
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thank you, my point exactly. There are to my understanding four mayan "codices" but they have yet to be properly translated by actual mayans, just a bunch of over-excited american scholars (who have a similar agenda as the spanish). Further, the pictographs which cover most of the buildings have never been translated, they are an educated guess at best, there is no rosetta stone.