[Tangent] Ancient Teotihuacan Glyphs, In What Is Now Mexico: A New Crack At A "Time Out Of Mind" Puzzle...

Having seen these glyphs, with my own two eyes (and heard the tale) -- yet possessing none of these potentially piercing insights -- just over two decades ago. . . this mystery has long-fascinated me: Who were they? -- and what were they saying to each other long before the Aztecs arose? And why did they essentially. . . vanish, under the hot Sun?

Here's a new approach, to unraveling all that, and a bit of it -- from the NYT:

. . .It was a metropolis of the ancient Americas, a city where as many as 125,000 people lived at its peak and where the Aztecs, centuries later, stood in wonder at the titanic pyramids they found in ruins.

But for all they have learned about the city of Teotihuacan, archaeologists have also stood in wonder, especially when it comes to the glyphs on its murals and pottery. The symbols have long confounded archaeologists, even as they have deciphered the writings of other cultures, leaving generations of scientists to debate puzzle pieces — signs and languages separated by hundreds of years — that never quite seemed to line up.

“There was always this kind of sense that, ‘well, this looks like the best match,’ but the readings that were suggested always had some problems,” said Christophe Helmke, an archaeologist at the University of Copenhagen. . . .

“Each article on Teotihuacan writing is a good step forward, because each attracts a generation of new linguists who bring their insights,” Joyce Marcus, an archaeologist at the University of Michigan, said in an email. “The major problem has always been the tiny corpus of hieroglyphs from Teotihuacan; there are still so few examples of each hieroglyph. . . .”

And, so -- under the words (whatever these may be). . . a river runs through it. A river, from the basement of time. . . [as it rains there] and some of those words are mine, to you. Smile.

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