so apparently the one with the wig thought someone was talking about her behind her back….so she went in “disguise"💀💀to find out what were they saying and after she confronted them in disguise they said something about her to her face and then…she snatched her wig off and said the iconic “surprise bitch”
Cutting a bloodwood tree. Based on my previous post, the bloodwood tree is a deciduous, spreading and slightly flat-crowned tree with a high canopy. It reaches about 15 metres in height and has dark bark. The red sap is used traditionally as a dye and in some areas mixed with animal fat to make a cosmetic for faces and bodies.
aight but imagine being the first human to see this
like you got all sorts of religions and stuff with trees and plants in general
and you just go one day like it’s normal
and your tree is bleeding
would’ve been terrifying
….I feel like this is how the horror movie starts…
Imagine seeing this guy leaving the woods holding his chainsaw covered in that stuff, and not knowing he’s just cutting weird trees.
Mayan glyphs had a square-ish shape, with rounded corners. They have complex designs, and body parts (such as eyes, jaws & hands) could sometimes been seen. Other designs were abstract.
The main cartouche sometimes had secondary designs attached to them, which seem to be prefixes & affixes to change the glyph’s meaning. Some glyphs have the bars & dots of numerals.
The glyphs were arranged in double vertical columns, read left-to-right and top-to-bottom. Like Chinese, the glyphs were pictograms, each representing a complete word rather than a syllable or single sound.
Bishop de Landa believed that the glyphs were an alphabetical script. He was partially right - some of the glyphs are phonetic, but not most. He wrote down a key for the glyphs he knew, with the help of an interpreter.
However, his key has not proved as useful as it could have been. One of the difficulties may have been because the interpreter gave him the name of the letter/glyph, rather than its sound (like saying “aitch” instead of giving a “h” sound).
Eric S. Thompson (British archaeologist) published his monumental Maya Hieroglyphic Writing in 1950. In it, he explains some of the problems of understanding the Mayan script.
In Yucatec Maya, the word xoc means both “to count”, and a mythological fish. So in a glyph which is to do with the idea of counting, this idea is represented by a fish head.
In Mayan mythology, the moan bird is a kind of horned owl. It lives in the sky, and helps to send rain to earth. The most important part of the year was the rainy season (because of the dependence on maize), and so the glyph for tun (year) in the Haab calendar has a moan head.
The first uinal (month) in the Haab calendar is called pop. Pop also meant a mat of plaited rushes. So, the glyph for the month name pop contains a mat. It is very logical - but difficult for us.
Another problem is that in art, the Maya loved to fill every available space with designs, and it was the same with glyphs. Some of the glyphs are so elaborate that it creates confusion, and separating out the essential aspects can be very difficult.
