![]() In a famed book burning conducted in 1562, de Landa had 27 codices burned at Mani. The most famous destroyer of Mayan codices was Diego de Landa, the Franciscan Bishop of Yucatán in the 16th century. ![]() And since the subject matter related to Maya religion, it was heretical insofar as Christianity was concerned. Right now, the only instances we have of writing in Mayan are glyphs at various Maya ruins and four surviving codices that escaped the religious zeal of the Spanish missionaries in destroying what they perceived to be heretical. Curiously, the Aztecs and Inca did not have their own alphabet, however advanced they may have been in other respects. ![]() Now I have heard that in earlier centuries, the Zapotecs and Mixtecs of Northern Mexico had a written alphabet, but stopped using it after a certain point. ![]() At the time the Spanish landed in he New World, there was only one Pre-Columbian culture that had a written alphabet, and that was the Maya. ![]()
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