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Date of upload: Apr 9, 2020 ^^
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I live in the State of Yucatan, Mexico and many of my neighbors are Mayan. They still speak the language (a version of it) and,for them, Spanish is a 2nd language. They carry their traditions as best as they can. They are welcoming, generous, and kind folks. Hopefully they will be able to share and continue their story thru their children and grandchildren.
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Well the wheel is seen as a measure of how advanced a civilization was, but we need to understand that the wheel is not always that helpful. In these rainforests where the terrain is very irregulat and filled with tree roots and vines, the wheel woukd not have helped much. Plus, the fact that there were no horses or large animals to pull carts, it just didn't make much sense to use them. Technologies are a reflection of the needs of a civilization based on their surroundings and the challenges they pose. But technology is not always linear and comparable.
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The Mayan script is so beautiful and...well, playful is the only word I can come up with for it. They seem to have delighted in coming up with different ways of spelling or writing the same word, sometimes using their glyphs as pictograms, sometimes as ideograms, sometimes as letters, all combined into an artful whole. It's absolutely fascinating.
A fact I love about it is that the linguists working on deciphering the text have also started teaching what they've learned to the modern Mayan speakers, and those they teach are running classes teaching others how to read and write in their own script. After so many centuries of repression, the Maya are able to read their own history in their own words again.
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I have studied two mayan languages (of our own 21 mayan languages here in Guatemala, Mexico speaks only 4 mayan languages). The good thing is that mayan people have kept intact their way of transmitting culture. I am studying my second mayan language, highlands one, I have studied native languages at Peru too. It is highly possible that all these cultures communicated in the very distant past. Remember that, aztecs as well as incas were the peak of an enormous iceberg of complex and variegated cultures in America. In Peru, for instance, Moche were contemporary to classical maya, and moche were long time extinct when inca roused as dominant culture in the region. In Guatemala, classical mayan declined for over 400 hundred years, and mayanization mixed with mexicanization took place among the dominant tribes in the region. Fascinating.
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@Outlawcozyjails
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