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A band of only 57 men, led by Montejo el Mozo’s cousin (yet another Don Francisco), marched inland to take the Mayan village of T’Ho.
Superb beach, swimming lagoon, safe snorkeling, animals, horseback riding, turtles, underground river, Mayan dances — what more would you need?
Spain's El País said that Portillo promised Guatemalans "everything they wanted to hear … that he wouldn't govern for the privileged, that he would combat misery and violence, that he would recognize the rights of the large Mayan population, and that he would be firm with the military … and turn the judicial system upside down."
The rain god Chaac was a very important deity, whose image can be seen at every Mayan site.
After presenting various systems of communication (signs, pictographs, rebuses, shorthand, tallies, Babylonian clay tokens, Peruvian quipus), Robinson discusses such ancient and now defunct but decipherable writing systems as Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Greek Linear B, and Mayan glyphs; ditto some of the more outstanding conundra awaiting decipherment--Cretan Linear A, Proto-Elamite, Etruscan, and the Easter Island and Indus scripts.