From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Mon Oct 30 23:53:08 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: iad@math.bas.bg X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 31 Oct 2000 07:53:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 11798 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2000 07:53:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Oct 2000 07:53:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO banmatpc.math.bas.bg) (195.96.243.2) by mta2 with SMTP; 31 Oct 2000 07:52:55 -0000 Received: from iad.math.bas.bg (iad.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.88]) by banmatpc.math.bas.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA19026 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:52:38 +0200 Message-ID: <39FE88AD.2992@math.bas.bg> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:54:05 +0200 Reply-To: iad@math.bas.bg Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] month names References: <8.c12f9bc.272f2838@aol.com> <39FDD89F.61D58E3C@reutershealth.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski John Cowan wrote: > pycyn@aol.com wrote: > > (I seem to recall the Aztecs or the Mayans had a system > > with both plant and animal names: "4 Cane" and "5 Jaguar" > > stick in my mind as important for something or other). > > Mayan. Both, actually. Only the Aztec (ie Nahuatl) names are usually translated when referred to in English or other European languages, whereas the Mayan ones are more often left as they are, perhaps because they are shorter and look less exotic. > We used to think that this system was also used for Mayan > personal names (i.e. people were named after their birthdays), > but IIRC this is no longer believed. But surely the evidence of people having dates (ie names of days) as names is still there. What is no longer believed? That those days are their birthdays? --Ivan