Alexis McLeod
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first heard Apr 2018
last heard Apr 2020
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It's one big problem in the Maya region is that these bark paper books are in a in most, what's mainly rainforest region, and so they don't store.
well, as the as texts do in say the you know in in the Middle East, right, in which it's dry, right, and text could remain for many years.
So that's like another problem.
Um luckily we do have uh a number of texts that are on um on stele, uh on uh constructions, on buildings, on uh stele that were erected by rulers to um to commemorate certain certain victories and or certain uh accessions to rule, things like this.
And then on on things like pottery um and other constructions we have uh we have lots of glyphs uh and texts that are mainly the stele texts are mainly so uh
are mainly concerned with uh with dates uh of of of battles and of of accessions, things like this.
Um in addition to that, we have um, as I mentioned before, we have the post contact texts, and these are texts like the the famous uh Kiche Maya Popovu or the uh the books of Chilambalam, uh which recount uh stories, rituals, uh kind of philosophical positions that you find earlier
So
The
Th texts like the Popo Vu it certainly involve elements of um things like Christianity, but they also involve these kind of early lay earlier layers uh of Maya thought.
Um and one of the ways that we can demonstrate that is that a lot of the stories that we see at the Popo Vu um have these kind of um they're represented in in earlier uh artwork, right?
So we see images of say the hero twins from the Popo Vu in classic period, uh classic period artwork.
various kind of stories um that we find in in the text.
So the one one of the nice things actually about um
working in this area right now is that uh it's relatively recently that that a vast kind of majority of the glyphs have been have been deciphered.
Um it used to be the case not too long ago that that much of this much of these texts that we have uh couldn't couldn't be read.
Um and so that was part of the issue that it wasn't just kind of a lack of text, but also we didn't know how to read them.
And so epigraphers and and others who kind of interpret this stuff have have now begun to really understand what's going on
On how to read these texts.
And in addition, archaeologists continually find more material in the Maya region.
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