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Reply to: A Phonetic Version of the Maya Glyph for North
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
Abstract
This paper acknowledges the validity of Closs's phonetic reading of north as xaman in the Classic Mayan inscriptions, while not accepting his separation of north from up and the zenith direction.
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