12 Ajaw 8 K’ank’in. Drawings by Jorge Pérez de Lara.
To give our readers an idea of the wide range of workshops in diverse geographical communities, we present in this blog three workshops in three Maya languages that were supported by MAM grants in recent months.
(Map courtesy Coe and Kerr: The Maya Scribe and his World)
I. La Libertad , Chiapas, Mexico by Pablo Sántiz Gómez (Tzeltal Maya)
On the 12th, 13th and 14th of November this year I went to the community of La Libertad, Municipality of Huixtán, Chiapas, Mexico to teach a workshop on Maya epigraphy (tz’iib’) of our ancestors, aimed at students in sixth grade and third grade in the school Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez.
It was awesome when I started giving the workshop because the students were so pleased, because in the state of Chiapas, almost no one has done this kind of workshop.
The students were so pleased, because in the state of Chiapas, almost no one has done this kind of workshop.
Only the teacher Martin Gómez Ramírez has worked with the students in the casas de culturas in the highlands of Chiapas, so there is much work to do on Maya epigraphy. For three days I felt very happy to teach the workshop and the students were very happy to know, write, and re-capture our Maya ancestry. Continue reading
