. The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan . ed in them. . Their main principle is pic-torial. Gods are represented with their appropriate attri-butes, — the fire-god hurling his spear, the moon-goddesswith a shell, etc.; the scenes of human life are picturesof warriors fighting with club and spear, men paddling incanoes, women spinning and weaving, etc. An importantstep toward phonetic writing appears, however, in thepicture-names of places and persons. The simplest formsof these depict the objects signified by the name, as whereChapulkpec, or
. The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan . ed in them. . Their main principle is pic-torial. Gods are represented with their appropriate attri-butes, — the fire-god hurling his spear, the moon-goddesswith a shell, etc.; the scenes of human life are picturesof warriors fighting with club and spear, men paddling incanoes, women spinning and weaving, etc. An importantstep toward phonetic writing appears, however, in thepicture-names of places and persons. The simplest formsof these depict the objects signified by the name, as whereChapulkpec, or Grasshopper Hill, is represented by agrasshopper on a hill, or a stone with a cactus on it standsfor Tenoch, or Stone Cactus, the founder of system had, however, risen a stage beyond this whenobjects were drawn to represent, not themselves, but thesyllables forming their names, as where a trap, an eagle, apricker, and a hand are put together not to represent theseobjects, but in order that the syllables of their namesmo-quauh-zo-ma should spell the word
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