Could Mayan Flowers Really Be Vaginas? by Jennifer Ball © Sept. 20, 2011 Is this really a Water Lily? Especially considering the package this jaguar is sporting? (See reddened circle right.) The bisymmetry of the “u uay” character, third down, also bespeaks women. Picture on right from Michael D. Coe’s Breaking the Maya Code (New York, Thames and Hudson, 1992), page 257.
Michael Coe quotes a “young epigrapher” on page 272 of Breaking the Maya Code: “Shouldn’t we be looking at how other scholars deal with other literate civilizations, such as those of Mesopotamia and China? There might be important lessons here.” Indeed, if we look at Sumerian cuneiform, there are many incidences of vaginas in all forms of words, such as “spouse,” “sluice, waterfall,” “merchant,” etc. If we look at Chinese characters, there are many incidences of women as conceptual underpinnings of major ideas, “boggy,” “adultery,” “jealousy,” etc. So it seems odd that when I search the Maya dictionary for “vagina,” “breast,” “milk,” “genitalia,” nothing comes up. Could we be misinterpreting a character, “flower” perhaps, for “vagina” or a women signifier?
http://research.famsi.org/montgomery_dictionary/ mt_entry.php?id=669&lsearch=n&search=flower The above character is a Maya glyph for “flower, son.” Is that a mouth this flower/ son has, or is this glyph showing a breast at the face of the son? Left is the Sumerian cuneiform for “child, son, daughter.” I have rotated it 90° cw to match the Maya depiction above. The Sumerian depiction, though a “cruder” drawing of a child, still depicts a face with eyes, and what would seem to be two breasts at the bottom of the cuneiform. Considering that both of these depictions mean “child,” comparing them for similarities is not unreasonable. The “dumu” child cuneiform is from the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary (http://psd.museum.upenn.edu) Could Mayan Flowers be Vaginas? © 9/9/2011: avail. at www.originofalphabet.com rev. 20 September 2011 2:20 PM
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A Page of Penises from the Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs.
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A Page of Flowers from the Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs.
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