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| Here's an example of the way that glyphs are read differently when inside and outside the calendar cartouche. The howler monkey face is read AJAW when it is surrounded by the cartouche, as on the left. When the cartouche is absent, as in the death-phrase metaphor for the soul on the right, the reading is possibly NICH, with a meaning related to "flower". (This reading is not entirely secure. It is complicated by a mi prefix on a pot from Naranjo, which suggests that the word must begin with m. As noted, David Stuart does not accept the NICH reading and points out that there is another glyph for "flower" [personal communication 2003].) |