Linda Schele, et al., divide the B Glyph into two main variants, the “rodent bone” and the T1041 (? This must be a misprint or typo; I think T1016 is meant here, as that is the glyph that appears) “God C” head. Thompson refers to an additional two variants; a version with “two circles containing what appear to be drops of water or cursive Ik signs” and a version where “the head with its infix or postfix is replaced by the muluc (water or xoc) symbol.” The glyphs in the table below fall into the “rodent-bone,” “two circle” and “muluc” groups; Thompson (1971) says that the “God C” variant appears in only two texts, but only shows one. Schele, Grube and Fahsen show several others: Copan 19, Copan P, Palenque TFS jb, Palenque TS jb, Palenque TS stucco (two examples), KC panel, Copan 3 and the Copan Hieroglyphic Stairway. Finally, Schele, Grube and Fahsen show at least one more variety in which the rodent head is replaced by a “kayab” turtle head (Quirigua stela G); they say that this is a phonetic complement, phonetic ‘a’.
Most all of these versions begin with an ‘u’ syllable
; the phonetic value of
the rodent head T757,
, is ‘ba’,
while the T758a
rodent head is ‘ch’o’ or,
with the bone element,
‘ch’ok,” and the T1016
glyph
reads
‘k’u’
or
‘k’ul.’
The “two circles” element,
reads ‘ch’ok’, “sprout,” the same as T758a, and
the “elbow”
itself reads ‘k’aba’, “name.”
Thus, the Glyph B phrase reads either u k’ul k’aba,
its Holy name
(
)
or
u ch’ok k’aba,
its sprout name
(
).
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Main web site: http://www.pauahtun.org