SVGA Mah Jongg Tile Set Description

This File     : MAYA.TXT
Tile Set Name : MAYA.TL
Subject       : One Mayan pronouncing alphabet.
              : April 4, 1993

Created by    : Tom Boothby 
                2202 SE Tenino
                Portland, OR   97202
                (503) 238 1443


Description: This tile set follows, generally, the format of the 
original Mah Jongg set: three suits, four winds and two sets of wild 
cards. 

When the Spaniards came to the New World they brought scholars as well
as plunderers.  One of the scholars made an attempt to create a written
Mayan language by asking the Mayans what pictograph would represent
certain sounds.  This file shows what he put down.  It was really a
failure but I thought interesting enough for a tile set.

There is nothing authentic about the colors.  I mixed the colors so 
that at a later date the tile colors could be changed easily.  You
wont find any Mayan books using these pictures for their alphabet
because they did not use one.  I think the scholar finally realized
this, too.

Anyway, this set came after a nice week in Cancun and a day at Cichen Itza.




   Suit: White             Suit: Yellow            Suit: Pink 

   1) AAK                  11) ICH                 21) POO        
   2) A                    12) CA                  22) PPAK       
   3) AH                   13) CIMI                23) KU                
   4) BE                   14) LE                  24) KU        
   5) BOLAY                15) LU                  25) CHE       
   6) KE                   16) MU                  26) XANAN            
   7) T                    17) NUK                 27) UAC       
   8) E                    18) O                   28) TZU              
   9) CH'E                 19) O                   29) Name of one month
  10) PYRAMID 1            20) PYRAMID 2           30) PYRAMID 3      

                           Wild Cards:             Wild Cards:

  31) Deity 1              35) Mask                39-42) Deity 5          
  32) Deity 2              36) Mask                                    
  33) Deity 3              37) Mask                
  34) Deity 4              38) Mask                                   
  
                       Thank you again Nels Anderson