Past meets present
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Glyph from stone set in wall of closed patio next to the tower, Palenque, Chiapas.
I love it when archaeologists get creative in inserting the past into the present.
David Stuart, a well-known Maya epigrapher, has composed “Obama” in glyphs (it’s “o-ba-ma-a”*), and you can buy t-shirts, cloth bags, or ball caps imprinted with it….
* Oh, you’re asking about the duplicate “a”? That’s explained here. Those crazy Mayas!