What’s hiding inside Maya glyphs - Thoth’s Pill #6 (Syllabary)

Maya glyphs aren’t just Mesoamerican eye candy. They’re a working writing system! Unlike the thousands of logograms encountered in your journey so far, the Maya syllabary lets you combine a very limited number of syllables into a block to write a word. With a few tricks, you can even use those syllables for more complicated sound patterns, like words that end in a consonant. That’s not all Mayan writing can do! There are logographs, logographs plus syllables, logographs plus sound hints (phonetic compleme