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FoolishConsistency17 t1_ix8etdz wrote
Reply to comment by GullibleAntelope in Yuri Knorozov: The Maverick Scholar Who Cracked The Maya Code by tyrannosauru
Quipu have nothing to do with Maya.
Maya glyphs are a full language, capable of replicating the sound of any word in the language phonetically. Those thousands of codices were almost certainly similar to the written records of every other civilization: myths, histories, genealogies, administrative records.
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