
Advance through level two by reviewing level one and exploring how Maya words are constructed, tracing Olmec origins, and practicing nouns, verbs, pronouns, and prepositions.
Explore Maya hieroglyphs, including syllable glyphs and logograms. Learn to read glyph blocks in paired columns using a zigzag order, identifying main signs, affixes, and glottal stops.
Explore Olmec jade celts as votive tools and symbols of maize and axis mundi. See how jadeite from the Motagua Valley and cinnabar engravings reveal complex messages.
Explore Olmec roots of writing and the emergence of Maya glyphs, highlighting maize deity, axis mundi, bird symbols, and key artifacts like La Venta monument 19.
Explore Maya nouns, focusing on common and proper nouns, with examples of naming people, places, things, and ideas, plus how to render and distinguish Maya glyphs.
Explore Maya nouns, including common, proper, abstract, mass, and collective nouns, with reference charts and glyph examples of people, places, things, and ideas, plus glyph-writing practice.
Practice reading, speaking, and writing Maya glyphs using syllable glyphs; explore Atlantida animals like coatimundi, alligator, armadillo, and scarlet macaws, with Copan symbols.
Learn Maya glyphs, glyph matrices, and syllable matrices; identify subject and predicate, build noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and prepositional phrases, and practice reading and writing Maya glyphs.
Explore Maya glyphs and infinitive verbs, identify common verbs, and practice reading and scripting syllabic Maya glyphs through hands-on exercises and dialogues.
Learn how Maya pronouns replace nouns, covering subject and possessive forms in Yucatec Maya and English, with emphasis on simple ergative glyphs and common pronoun usage.
Explore maya prepositions by showing how they relate a noun to another word, using same sentence with examples like at, in, from above, and about, noting double functions as adverbs.
Engage in six months of practice to read and write Maya glyphs, building foundational skills through consistent, immersive study.
This is the second level of our Read and Write Maya Hieroglyphs, it is Level 2. It is best to take this course after the basic Read and Write Maya Hieroglyphs course. It can also be taken concurrently, but it is advisable to take the Level 1 course first.
This is a unique course that opens the doors towards communicating with the Ancient Maya.
I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated firsthand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius
This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.
The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.
Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.