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'll dig into some of my notes and see if I can come up with a specific
example or two from the Dresden Codex for you.  It has been a while,
but i think I know where the file is.

And BTW, I think that after much searching I am finally about to get
my hands on a Plath bubble horizon!  One slipped through my fingers
three years ago, to my great chagrin!

best
-p

On Apr 6, at , Frank Reed wrote:

> Paul, you wrote:
> "Bowditch was a pioneer in Maya studies and a terrific writer. In
> fact, his work was responsible in part for my taking Celestial
> Navigation (Astro 99) from Francis Wright in Sophomore year as I was
> building my skills in order to use a box sextant to measure
> structures in the Northern Peten for suspected celestial alignments."
>
> Very cool!
>
> "But there are countless other instances of the Maya demonstrating
> calendric virtuosity and sometimes no small sense of humor. Maya is a
> language that lends itself to puns (for example, in Tzotzil maya, "-
> bol" can mean both "stupid" and "in-laws.", and there are even puns to
> be found in their heiroglyphic texts. "
>
> That's interesting. I've never heard that before. I have tried to
> keep up with the revolution in Mayan historical studies in the past
> thirty years, but it's such a huge subject, and I'm still surprised
> by things as basic as this.
>
> -FER
>
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