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Fig.9.7<br />

Hand gesLure signs <strong>in</strong> ancient Maya writ<strong>in</strong>g, and modern hand gestures.<br />

From left to right "the moon is go<strong>in</strong>g down; the young moon ii ris<strong>in</strong>g;<br />

the moon reta<strong>in</strong>s water (the dry season); the moon lets water escape (tÉe<br />

ra<strong>in</strong>y season)." Draw<strong>in</strong>gs by P. Dunham (after H. Neuenswander,<br />

Summer Institute of L<strong>in</strong>guistics, Guatemala City, Guatemala), as Fig. 6.2 n<br />

Aveni, 'l'989, Empíres of Time: calendars, clocks, and cultures, 1gg.<br />

Fig.9.7

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