Motif
ancient writing as difficult or lost knowledge
ancient_writing_as_difficult_or_lost_knowledge
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
maya
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The Maya Chronicles THE CHRONICLES. / THE CHRONICLE OF CHAC XULUB CHEN. / INTRODUCTION. / CONTENTS.; lines 1242-1340 confidence: medium
"The Mayas were a literary people" who used tablets, wrote books, and covered building walls with hieroglyphic signs cut in stone or painted on plaster.
The passage emphasizes Maya books and hieroglyphic signs and states that Landa's alphabet-like key was insufficient to decipher the surviving manuscripts and inscriptions.
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