King of kings. The dynastic emblem glyph of the Snake kings shows up across the Maya region. CONACULTA, INAH, MEXICO “I think they changed the way politics were done. I think they created ...

In 1832, Rafinesque declared in his newsletter, the Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge, that the dots and bars seen in Maya glyphs (like these at left, from the Dresden Codex) represented ...