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THE ALPHABET
According to Landa, and also to other Spanish contemporary writers, the Maya script "was a possession only of the priests, the sons of the priests, some of the principal lords...", and furthermore "not all the priests knew how to describe it." Writing was so highly estimated that its invention and that of books were attributed to the most important deity of the Mayas, Itzamna, the son of the Creator-god, Hunab Ku, who was the god of heaven and of the sun.
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