Maya Bloodletting and the Number Three  

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Stross, Brian

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 31 no. 3/4 (1989), page 209-226.
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This essay proposes, first, to demonstrate an association between the number three and bloodletting iconography of the Mayas and of their Olmec predecessors, and, second, to suggest an explanation for that association, which is reflected in a sonic resemblance between Mixe-Zoquean words for 'three' and Mayan words for 'flint, bloodletter, to let blood'. The connection between bloodletting concepts and the number three is ultimately derived from a near homophony between Mixe-Zoquean words for 'three' and Mixe-Zoquean words for concepts such as cut, which allow both for rebus writing and for rebuslike iconographic representation of bloodletting concepts through a depiction of forms representing or implying three. Simply put, the Classic Mayas apparently inherited a symbolic association between three and bloodletting that goes back to the Olmecs and that might have originated in Olmec language homophony.

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