Maya•. rit ten in those hi) roglyph, was destroyed so thoroughly by the spani-h priest, that only a ten feu 1 pre,erved iu Rome, Dresden, t•te.) lot l •• survived. a few I 11,erilit stone. The of the sixteenth century have left the explanation of a few sign, only, so that the Aztec writing is al entirely unintelligible. Ihmever, what we umb•rstand of it scene: to show that the 'Mexi• can. 11 id not advance much the picto graphic stage, though the pictures they used were highly conventionalized. They could express the names of etc.. by paint• ing the objects or beings after which they were called. and went so far a, to symbolical signs of plant. and animals• to express gram matical forms so that their pictures were not. lead, but interpreted. lVln•re. for example. they recorded historical they had to picture these. as the inscriptions alone would hove been insinlivient. The majority of their seem to have been calendars. of omina. ele.„ for which their imperfect wailing sysielli It is -.aid that ...one Sp:Mi.-1i ItIOnk• Made use of hieroglyphic for expressing Latin prayers. For example. they are said to have expressed the words pot).- roster by a thug ( pant i = pots a stone ( let/ = I. 1. a valet it ( norh =
/loch 1. and a '-lone (= ie. :11)10.'0 . hosts a. This system secins. it marked. a step in advanee, as the hieroglyphs from •ord-signs became phonetie Such attempt•. however. remained perfectly flu' Spanish ink showed the greatest hostility to anything recalling the former Azt VC idolatry. The term hieroglyphic was used by the of einlill•mata or d I •N' i ,ymhol jzi fig tenees taken from t he I :reek and Lit in poets. and having no relation to Egyptian hieroglyphics. In recent times. also. the astrological almanacs have had their syniliolieal representations :Ind ).tipposed of future events. which they called Consult Brugsch.
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