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Glyph A17

was the name of the moon   --  Schele, 1988

Glyph B (the rabbit was in the moon)    --  Robertson, 1985


Photo: Mark Van Stone   zoom
Drawing: Merle Greene Robertson

"Glyph B is very similar to another glyph that has been identified at Copan and elsewhere as a closure for proper names reading something like 'its name was'. This may be the function of Glyph B in the Lunar Series also (Schele, 1988)."