In Mexico, next to the Great Museum of the Mayan World, there is a monument to a Russian scientist: Yuri Knorozov, carved in a yellowish stone, the work of Mexican sculptor Reynaldo Bolio Suarez. It is exactly the same model as the most famous photograph of the linguist and epigrapher, in which he appears with his inseparable cat Asya. It was precisely her, his cat, whom Yuri repeatedly tried to add to the list of co-authors of his works, but the editors constantly crossed out the pet's name.
"In my heart I will always be Mexican" is the phrase that decorates the monument to
Soviet Ukrainian Mexican soldier Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov in the city of Merida, Yucatan. This phrase was pronounced in 1994, when the former Soviet received the Order of the Aztec Eagle decoration, the highest award given by the Mexican government to a foreigner.
His great feat consisted in deciphering the Mayan hieroglyphics for the first time. Before him, no one had ever succeeded. The first to attempt it was the Franciscan missionary Diego de Landa, who in the 16th century had thousands of Mayan Indians of Yucatan and Guatemala killed under the pretext of heresy. However, he preserved some codices and wrote the Relación de las cosas de Yucatán. In this document, Diego de la Landa describes the way of life of the Maya before the conquest, as well as the existing institutions. In addition, he also wrote a section under the title Maya Alphabet, which served as the basis for deciphering the glyphs.
The father of the decipherment of the Maya script, Yuri Valentinovich Knórosov, renowned ethnologist and linguist, was born on November 19, 1922 in Kharokov, Ukraine. From the age of 17, when he entered Moscow University, he showed his interest in ethnology, ancient writing and archaeology.
At the age of 21, he was studying violin in the USSR when World War II began and he had to join the troops as part of the General Staff reserve. He arrived in Berlin and when he saw that the Great Library was on fire, he went inside and managed to take out only two books: the edition of Diego de Landa Relación de las cosas de Yucatán prepared by Brasseur de Bourbourg and the 1933 edition of the Mayan codices of Carlos and Antonio Villacorta.
Upon his return to the Soviet Union, he resumed his studies and his thesis earned him the degree of doctor and from then on, and throughout his life, he worked at the Institute of Ethnography of the Kunst-Kamera Museum in Leningrad. Thanks to the creation of his school of Mayan epigraphy, the Center for Mesoamerican Studies also exists in Moscow.
In 1952 he published his first decipherments of the glyphs of the Dresden Codex and in 1963 his most important work appeared, "The Writing of the Ancient Maya", these as many other publications of his did not get the attention they deserved due to the Cold War. Curiously, he deciphered the Mayan writing in a room in Leningrad and it was not until after he had found the key that he traveled to Mayan territory.
Furthermore, in spite of the great importance of his studies in world culture, not only Maya or Mexican, Knórosov's work did not receive recognition until 1975 when he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR.
He first visited Mayan territory in 1990, at the invitation of the Guatemalan government, which also awarded him the Grand Gold Medal.
Cats were Knorozov's passion. Around 1970, his friends gave him a Siamese cat, which was then rare in Leningrad, where he lived at the time. He named her Asya and she became the main assistant to the researcher, he called her "his co-author".
Later in his visit to Mexico, he travels to Palenque, Bonampak, Yaxchilán, La Venta and Monte Albán, where the people appreciated the interest of the distant visitor for the cultures of this country. For this reason, in 1995 the Mexican government awarded him the Order of the Aztec Eagle.
He died on March 30, 1999 in Petersburg, Russia.
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why don't they just learn from it, make an alt, and come back
like... the point of the ban system is that you can learn
i had a couple accounts banned before i figured out how to be less of a bitch lol
good day. protested, all the good shit
go to the lib protests if they're the only thing in your town. it's better than being an armchair bordiga nerd
Gotta say, been really enjoying the flow of this website lately. Great megathreads + great ukraine war threads + great posts in general. Been having a great time here.
Tinder giving you a free super like because you’re vaccinated is unironically more than the Joe Brandon administration has done to combat covid
my dad keeps getting really fucking annoying about me spending my fucking money helping homeless people. I go to work for 8 hours plus lunch every day for 5 days a week, I pay my rent to him on time, and I'll spend my fucking money how I fucking like. "oh but the economy is so bad right now, you should be wiser with it, we might need that" bruv if it comes down to that, then obvious I will cut back how much I spend, but it being so hard right now means people need more shit. like I just hate this kind of hording mentality that we might need it, so you can't give it away
Get a load of this dumb motherfucker who doesn't hate every single person she encounters :farquaad-point:
Co-operation is the mathmatically most efficient tactic. If enough people did it the world would simply be a good pkqce to live
i go out in public terrified that someone will talk to me but i still give whatever cash i have to homeless people every time. protestant culture and its consequences or smth
honestly, strike up conversations with homeless people if you can. so many people try to buy feeling morally good just paying them and walking away in a very dehumanising manner, you'll honestly be doing a lot to show a person you see them as a person who you talk to. a lot of them are really nice and will appreciate a lot you giving them time and attention
As a Chinese person, paying your parents rent actually does not compute. Do parents just think once their kids turn 18 it's not their problem anymore? It's not that it never happens in Asian societies but it's very rare from what I can tell.
Preceding whatever you say with 'my brother in christ' makes everything 100x funnier.
I am drunk and I am a girl. Doesn't get much better than that.
Drunk. ✅ A girl. 🚫 :deeper-sadness: Congrats to you, though! :heart-sickle:
Not sure if this is relevant, but if it is friend:
If you want to be a girl, then you can just be girl.
:trans-heart:
Some days I have no gender. Some days my gender is just "queer". It's okay.
Most days my gender is girl and/or woman. I'm very happy with this fluidity. It's me. It's mine.
Life is good.
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the longer i live in america the more i understand the appeal of the god of the old testament. it would be sick if a hateful god just completely nuked our shit, we deserve it
It’s my birthdayyyyy :party-cat: :possum-party: :party-rocking: :spongebob-party: :party-sicko: :party-blob: :party-parenti: :hexcrab-party: :crab-party: :party-parrot-mask:
Putin is dead from ass cancer and is also being overthrown yesterday
-every western media outlet credulously reporting whatever the Ukrainians say
Eurovision got rigged. That Ukraine had won was completely predetermined, but still, some countries are unhappy:
the Romanian broadcaster states that they had not received any information about the exclusion of their jury scores. They specifically state that their jury had awarded twelve points to Moldova. However, in the accumulated jury score that was created by the EBU upon excluding Romania’s jury, Moldova didn’t receive a single point. Instead, their twelve points now went to eventual winners Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine.
Romania were one of the six countries having their jury vote disqualified, alongside Azerbaijan, Georgia, Poland, San Marino and Montenegro.
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i'm glad i will never have the sort of career that will put me in close proximity to business or finance people
patrick bateman was barely even a joke
Tik Tok now thinks I'm Jewish. it just goes through these phases where it's like oh you have schizophrenia here's a bunch of videos of people talking about that, or you're Jewish, ect and I'm always like :jesse-wtf: I'm literally none of these things why did you suddenly presume this???
Tiktok algorithm is based largely on watchbtime. But I think the algorithm has trouble differentiation between isreal, jewish content, and content by jewish creators. So sometimes that all gets a little extra juced wheb you watch a video of moses parting the sea with a beyblade
It thinks I have autism and that I live in London. At least it doesn't think I do GCSE Drama any more
I always appreciate getting YouTube ads in Spanish while clicking on something unrelated to anything Spanish-language. Makes me feel special.
Went to a show and the singer said “for this next song I need you to be homosexual, seriously get gayer or I will be angry”