What Is A Glyph?

The glyph for Neptune is the symbol of a trident, which stands for rulership over the sea.
The sephira of these two heavenly bodies are connected to one another on the Tree of Life or Cabalistic glyph.
I sometimes allow rampant letterfit adjustment and excessive glyph scaling to allude to the lack of state-sponsored childcare options.
As she did so, she noticed the glyph that decorated the center of the cross guard.
Schulman interprets the glyph as two Crescents of Soul interconnected via a Cross of Matter.
The author renders the word tradition into a signifier of doubtful intentions, a glyph whose meaning has yet to be ascertained.
It especially rules women, as indicated by the glyph, which is the universal symbol for womankind.
May the glyph be meditated in its twofold aspect to be able to experience the matter and the spirit with equanimity.
The glyph gives a message, which the student should learn: not to see the two pillars but to see the space in between.
There are enough combinations of numbers to assign each glyph with unique identification.
Originally the glyph was a centaur holding a bow and an arrow and aiming at a distant object.
To indicate this aspiration the glyph of Sagittarius is depicted as the arrow set on the bow.
The high priests of each province taught in priestly schools such subjects as history, divination, and glyph writing.
Alchemically, the ouroboros is also used as a purifying glyph and represents the spirit of Mercury, the substance that permeates all matter.
Look up your date of birth to see what the future has in store, and pick up a clutch of jade Mayan calendar glyph pendants to take home.
The center glyph is the default level of boldness for this font.
Additionally, the skull and crossbones glyph under the GHS is white and has a grin.
There is also support for the identification in that the glyph Ce Acatl, the birthday and birth name of the great Toltec leader Topiltzin, has been found carved on a hill near Tula.
The meaning of many non-calendrical signs and even of complete clauses is not known, but there is a difference between this and assigning an actual Maya word to an ancient glyph or a sentence to a glyphic clause.
Most scholars accepted the theory that the Mayan writing system was entirely logographic that is, that each glyph, or sign, represented an entire word.
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For ease of reference, epigraphers refer to glyph blocks from left to right alphabetically, and top to bottom numerically.
A ligature is a fusion of two or more ordinary letters into a new glyph or character.
Although hieroglyphic text may be laid out in varying manners, generally text is arranged into double columns of glyph blocks.
The basic unit of Maya hieroglyphic text is the glyph block, which transcribes a word or phrase.
The activists damaged an area around the hummingbird by walking near the glyph without regulation footwear.
Most other letters are written with the same glyph as the IPA phoneme, except as shown in the table below.
The glyph j occurs only after i, as in the final letter in a Roman numeral.
In the glyph of ³ it is symbolised by the formless background on which the symbol is enscribed and by the ether from which the sound of Aum is created and to which it returns.
Regarding the cover image, my interest was piqued at the sight of this phantasmagorical glyph, because nobody has ever seen such a crazy symbol before in all of human history.
Small sections of a main sign could be used to represent the whole main sign, and Maya scribes were highly inventive in their usage and adaptation of glyph elements.
The block is composed of one or more individual glyphs attached to each other to form the glyph block, with individual glyph blocks generally being separated by a space.
Use of r rotunda was mostly tied to blackletter typefaces, and the glyph fell out of use along with blackletter fonts in English language contexts mostly by the 18th century.
Individual glyph blocks may be composed of a number of elements.