Interpretation of the HieroglyphsThesepinturas, as the Spanish conquerors designated them, offer no very great difficulty in their elucidation to modern experts, at least so far as the general trend of their contents is concerned. In this they are unlike the manuscripts of the Maya of Central America with which we shall make acquaintance furtheron. Their interpretation was largely traditional, and was learned by rote, being passed on by one generation ofamamatini(readers) to another, and was by no means capable of elucidation by all and sundry.
Interpretation of the HieroglyphsThesepinturas, as the Spanish conquerors designated them, offer no very great difficulty in their elucidation to modern experts, at least so far as the general trend of their contents is concerned. In this they are unlike the manuscripts of the Maya of Central America with which we shall make acquaintance furtheron. Their interpretation was largely traditional, and was learned by rote, being passed on by one generation ofamamatini(readers) to another, and was by no means capable of elucidation by all and sundry.
Interpretation of the HieroglyphsThesepinturas, as the Spanish conquerors designated them, offer no very great difficulty in their elucidation to modern experts, at least so far as the general trend of their contents is concerned. In this they are unlike the manuscripts of the Maya of Central America with which we shall make acquaintance furtheron. Their interpretation was largely traditional, and was learned by rote, being passed on by one generation ofamamatini(readers) to another, and was by no means capable of elucidation by all and sundry.
Interpretation of the HieroglyphsThesepinturas, as the Spanish conquerors designated them, offer no very great difficulty in their elucidation to modern experts, at least so far as the general trend of their contents is concerned. In this they are unlike the manuscripts of the Maya of Central America with which we shall make acquaintance furtheron. Their interpretation was largely traditional, and was learned by rote, being passed on by one generation ofamamatini(readers) to another, and was by no means capable of elucidation by all and sundry.
Interpretation of the Hieroglyphs
Thesepinturas, as the Spanish conquerors designated them, offer no very great difficulty in their elucidation to modern experts, at least so far as the general trend of their contents is concerned. In this they are unlike the manuscripts of the Maya of Central America with which we shall make acquaintance furtheron. Their interpretation was largely traditional, and was learned by rote, being passed on by one generation ofamamatini(readers) to another, and was by no means capable of elucidation by all and sundry.
Thesepinturas, as the Spanish conquerors designated them, offer no very great difficulty in their elucidation to modern experts, at least so far as the general trend of their contents is concerned. In this they are unlike the manuscripts of the Maya of Central America with which we shall make acquaintance furtheron. Their interpretation was largely traditional, and was learned by rote, being passed on by one generation ofamamatini(readers) to another, and was by no means capable of elucidation by all and sundry.