. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. Hieroglyphs portion of Mayan inscriptions will finally be de- ciphered. As an example of the phonetic use of signs in the building up of hieroglyphs let us take the common sign kin, meaning "; This sign appears regu- larly in the glyphs for the world directions east and west, the Mayan names being likin and chikin, and also in the month sign Yaxkin, and sometimes in that for Kankin. It also appears as the sign for the lowest period in the time count having the value. FiLr. 47. Hi
. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. Hieroglyphs portion of Mayan inscriptions will finally be de- ciphered. As an example of the phonetic use of signs in the building up of hieroglyphs let us take the common sign kin, meaning "; This sign appears regu- larly in the glyphs for the world directions east and west, the Mayan names being likin and chikin, and also in the month sign Yaxkin, and sometimes in that for Kankin. It also appears as the sign for the lowest period in the time count having the value. FiLr. 47. Hieroglyphs containing the Phonetic Element lein: a-h, hin; c, li-kin; d, chi-Tcin; e-f, yax-Tcin; g, Jcan-Tcin. of a single day and called kin (Fig. 47). Now this kin sign also appears in many undeciphered hiero- glyphs and in some of these it seems likely that it has a phonetic value. Other signs with definite values in several glyphs arc yax, tun, zac, etc. This general method of writing is Boen in more decipher-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967. New York : American Museum of Natural History
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