Abstract
El artículo está dedicado al desciframiento del signo “cabeza de conejo” en la escritura jeroglífica maya del período clásico. Se puede identificar su valor de lectura como la sílaba pe gracias a dos observaciones – el signo se combina con el silabograma ‘e en el nombre de La Mar y parece a la letra “p” del alfabeto de Diego de Landa. Este valor silábico pe resulta en la lectura del nombre de La Mar como pe[pe]’tuun y en la identificación de dos raíces verbales: kop- “rollar, enroscarse” y pek- “llamar, invocar”. El última se utiliza cuando los vasallos se convocan enfrente de su rey y cuando se invocan los dioses. La palabra ‘u-kope‘m “su cosa enrollada” se aplica como el término para “la cuerda del sacrificio de sangre”, además, ésta forma parte de una expresión metafórica de parentesco “el hijo del padre”.
Highlights
This means that our understanding of Maya societies significantly depends on our understanding of Maya hieroglyphic writing system
Some scholars state that Maya hieroglyphic writing is “not yet completely deciphered” or “semi-deciphered” (Diehr et al 2018: 33), despite the fact that all the deciphered scripts enjoy a certain amount of the signs with unknown phonetic readings
Christian Prager (2021: 101) estimates that about 30% of approximately one thousand Maya signs cannot be read. This view contrasts with the evaluation of Maya epigraphy as “mature discipline” (Houston and Martin 2016; see Matsumoto and Carter 2020)
Summary
The significance of Amerindian societies for anthropological theory can hardly be overestimated because they independently developed complex political institutions, states, bureaucracies, cities, market economies, agriculture and writing. This observation explains why most unfilled positions in the Maya syllabic grid feature either e or o vowels and it might be explained by the fact that the Ci, Ca, and Cu signs but not Ce and Co are employed to indicate vowel complexity (Houston et al 1998; Lacadena and Wichmann 2004). We first consider evidence for the syllabic reading pe of the “Rabbit Head” sign in the Postclassic codices, we examine Classic examples of the sign under consideration and, we discuss some implications of this decipherment for a better understanding of Classic Maya society
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