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No one ever had a better writing system than the Mayans

because their alphabet looks like little cartoon characters,...
dashing maroon kitty nowag
  06/12/25
my first weeks on xo everyone seemed to be pumos, yet everyo...
Amber sandwich
  06/12/25
Now imagine each pumo used a unique font. You'd have no trou...
dashing maroon kitty nowag
  06/12/25
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Unholy Ultramarine Macaca Location
  06/12/25
A Spanish dood burned all their books one day, but this scra...
dashing maroon kitty nowag
  06/12/25
easily one of the dumbest, most tragic events in human histo...
Ocher Kitty Cat
  06/12/25
Why wouldn’t you?
bateful insecure friendly grandma
  06/12/25
historical importance aside, to do some recon on the civiliz...
Ocher Kitty Cat
  06/12/25
It was a bunch of bone in nose niggers eating each other. No...
bateful insecure friendly grandma
  06/12/25
That's why the Dresden Codex has no value.
dashing maroon kitty nowag
  06/12/25
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frozen transparent faggot firefighter
  06/12/25
bone in nose niggers precisely calculating the movements of ...
Ocher Kitty Cat
  06/12/25
You only think this because you watched some goofy kike&rsqu...
bateful insecure friendly grandma
  06/12/25
Guess the museum: https://i.imgur.com/aU52Bqx.jpeg
dashing maroon kitty nowag
  06/12/25
they were conquistadors, not historians. at the time egyp...
Abusive kitchen
  06/12/25
You don't even know why he burned them. You're just guessing...
dashing maroon kitty nowag
  06/12/25
You’re jewish.
bateful insecure friendly grandma
  06/12/25
I'm Chinese
dashing maroon kitty nowag
  06/12/25
cr. But ironically, it's also the only reason we can rea...
dashing maroon kitty nowag
  06/12/25
yeah because its impossible to recognize a persons handwriti...
Abusive kitchen
  06/12/25
Go ahead and try
dashing maroon kitty nowag
  06/12/25
comic strips in the fucking newspaper do this
internet-worthy stubborn messiness
  06/12/25


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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:15 PM
Author: dashing maroon kitty nowag

because their alphabet looks like little cartoon characters, and each writer developed their own style, so that you could tell who wrote what just be looking at the way the characters were drawn. This also gave the language another dimension, because an author's artistic choices often reflected something about the point he was trying to make.

Because of this, we are able to track debates between various Mayan authors. We can see what viewpoints were being expressed using various artistic styles and sort the authors accordingly, without knowing who the authors were or even their names.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008734)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:17 PM
Author: Amber sandwich

my first weeks on xo everyone seemed to be pumos, yet everyone knew exactly who was behind each post, and would call each other out.

it baffled and seduced me

this is not to mention the acronyms, which in those days were as common as regular language

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008743)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:19 PM
Author: dashing maroon kitty nowag

Now imagine each pumo used a unique font. You'd have no trouble following the discussion.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008752)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 9:01 PM
Author: Unholy Ultramarine Macaca Location



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:17 PM
Author: dashing maroon kitty nowag

A Spanish dood burned all their books one day, but this scrap survived:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Detail_of_Codex_Dresdensis_drawn_by_Lacambalam.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008744)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:39 PM
Author: Ocher Kitty Cat

easily one of the dumbest, most tragic events in human history. i understand taking them away, but send that shit back to spain why in the world would you burn it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008824)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:40 PM
Author: bateful insecure friendly grandma

Why wouldn’t you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008833)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:42 PM
Author: Ocher Kitty Cat

historical importance aside, to do some recon on the civilization you just took control of.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008843)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:43 PM
Author: bateful insecure friendly grandma

It was a bunch of bone in nose niggers eating each other. Nothing of value was lost.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008850)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:44 PM
Author: dashing maroon kitty nowag

That's why the Dresden Codex has no value.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008855)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: frozen transparent faggot firefighter



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008905)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:44 PM
Author: Ocher Kitty Cat

bone in nose niggers precisely calculating the movements of the universe

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008857)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: bateful insecure friendly grandma

You only think this because you watched some goofy kike’s pop history “short” on YouTube.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008862)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:54 PM
Author: dashing maroon kitty nowag

Guess the museum:

https://i.imgur.com/aU52Bqx.jpeg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008916)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:50 PM
Author: Abusive kitchen

they were conquistadors, not historians.

at the time egyptian artifacts were just sitting around and people didn't become interested in collecting them for hundreds of years later. the concept of preserving ancient civilizations was not widespread, and certainly not something they would have invested in across the ocean. and it's not like it was necessary to do any recon nor did they care to: they wanted to enslave and conquer, not learn about quetzalcoatl.

it's tragic but not at all surprising.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008889)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:43 PM
Author: dashing maroon kitty nowag

You don't even know why he burned them. You're just guessing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008847)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:43 PM
Author: bateful insecure friendly grandma

You’re jewish.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008853)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:44 PM
Author: dashing maroon kitty nowag

I'm Chinese

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008858)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:40 PM
Author: dashing maroon kitty nowag

cr.

But ironically, it's also the only reason we can read Mayan today. The same spaniard forced a slave to translate some shit from spanish into Mayan, and 500 years later a Russian scientist used that sample to decipher the entire Mayan script.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008835)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:30 PM
Author: Abusive kitchen

yeah because its impossible to recognize a persons handwriting using a system of uniform characters rather than doodles.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008782)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:33 PM
Author: dashing maroon kitty nowag

Go ahead and try

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008800)



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Date: June 12th, 2025 2:54 PM
Author: internet-worthy stubborn messiness

comic strips in the fucking newspaper do this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736699&forum_id=2...id.#49008915)