I met Elise in Oaxaca 2 years ago. She's the teacher advisor for the Yale study of the "Mayan Cultures Across Time". So nice to be with my teacher-geek-love Mexico-group again. After studying how to "break the mayan code" I was able to write my name in Mayan glyphs (over my head on the board). This phonetic language took a while to decipher, mostly due to the prejudice of European scholars who just couldn't believe these little people could create a written language. "They" say there are only 5 orignal written languages. All others are derivations.