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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
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.
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yes without such a key the work of any scholars on this is purely guesswork, apparently they have made some progress but it seems to me that if you study something in such detail for long enough of course you will find links that COULD mean seem something and seem to fit together in a way... for example going back to the equinox apparently they traced the symbol for the spring equinox.. 'because of its obvious representation of a cloud from which three streams of water are falling upon the earth. the square at the top represents heaven. the obsidian knife underneath denotes a division or period of time cut off, as it were, from other periods of the year. that the sign means "spring" is verified by its position among the other signs of the seasons.'
could be i guess, but arent they just looking too hard and wanting to see things?