 prev - home - next The inscription from Stela 31 continues with this fascinating glyph. It shows a crouching man with something in his lap. Since the next glyph in the inscription is "he died" and the signs in the lap together with the sign on the left can be deemed to spell "pain", it was once suggested that someone accidentally killed himself while drawing sacrificial blood from his private parts (a ceremony known to have been performed by Maya rulers). But if this were the case, we would expect a personal name and not the verb that we find in the next glyph block. Though less sensationalistic, it is likelier that this glyph serves as a sort of conjunction, introducing the verb (as first suggested by Simon Martin). |
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