Re: Minhyan & the goddess of conlangs
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 4, 2004, 17:35 |
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John Leland wrote at 2004-09-04 01:14:55 (EDT)
> In a message dated 8/31/04 10:57:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:
>
> << And what
> about the Americas? Are there no suitable deities there?
> >>
> There are the Maya monkey-scribe gods.I forget their names
> off-hand. John Leland
Hun Batz and, er... [refers to book] Hun Chuen. Spellings are somewhat
variable, of course. They're pretty cool, but I don't think we know
much about them apart from what's in the Popol Vuh (which isn't
particularly complimentary) and whatever can be inferred from
depictions in Maya art.