| Greek Alphabet | MAYA VOCABLES | WITH THIER | ENGLISH | MEANING | |
| Alpha |
AL Heavy |
paa break |
ha Water |
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| Beta | Be Walk |
ta place |
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| Gamma | Kam Receive |
ma earth |
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| Delta | Tel Depth, bottom |
ta place |
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| Epsilon | Ep Obstruct |
zil make edges |
on-om whirpool; to whirl |
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| Zeta | Ze Strike |
ta Place, ground |
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| Eta | Et With |
ha Water |
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| Theta | Thetheah Extend |
ha water |
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| Iota | Io All that which lives and moves |
ta earth |
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| Kappa | Ka Sediment |
paa break; open |
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| lambda | Lam submerge |
be go |
ta where; place |
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| Mu | Mu mu |
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| Ni | Ni Point; summit |
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| Xi | Xi Rise over; appear over |
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| Omikron | Om whirlpool; whirl |
Ik wind |
le place |
on circular |
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| Pi | pi to place by little and little |
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| Rho | La until |
ho come |
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| Sigma | Zi Cold |
Ik wind |
ma before |
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| Tau | Ta Where |
U basin; valley |
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| Upsilon | U Abyss |
Pa tank |
Zi cold; frozen |
le place |
On circular |
| Phi | Pe Come; from |
Hi clay |
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| Chi | Chi mouth; aperture |
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| Psi | Pe Come out |
zi vapour |
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| Omega | O there |
mec whirl |
ka sediment |
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FREELY TRANSLATED
Alpha : heavily break -the-waters
Beta: extending-over the-plains
Gamma: They-cover-the -land
Delta: in low places where
Epsilon: there are-obstructions, shores form and whirlpools
Zeta: strike-the-earth
Eta: with water
Theta: the -water spreads
Iota: on all that lives and moves
kappa: sediments give way
lambda: submerged is -the-land
Mu: of Mu
Ni: the peaks -only
Xi: appear above -the water
Omikron: whirlwinds blow around
Pi: by little and little
Ruo: until comes
Sigma: cold air, before
Tau: where-existed-valleys
Upsilon: now, abysses, frozen tanks. In circular places
phi: Clay - formed
Chi: A - mouth
Psi: opens; vapours
Omega: come forth-and volcanic sediments
DOES IT ALL SOUND GREEK TO YOU???
The Greeks had good reasons for grieving at the loss of MU, since, according to Egyptian records, thousands of their best warriors lost their lives by it. They celebrated the festival of the small panatheneas, in commemoration of the victory gained by their ancestors, with the aid of Minerva, over the Atlanteans, when the latter tried to invade Greece after having conquered the other mediterranean nations - those living on the cost of libya as far as Egypt, and those dwelling on the European shores as far as Tyrrhania. After repelling the invaders the Greek warriors pursued them to their own homes; so they also fell victims to the wrath of Homen.
In Order to preserve the memory of the catastrophe for the knowledge of future generations, they wrote an epic in the Maya language, which seems to have been at that time still prevalent among them. In it were described the geological and meteorological phenomena that took place and caused the wholesale destruction of the Land of Mu and its inhabitants. When in the year 403 BC, during the archonship of Euclid, the grammarians rearranged the Athenian alphabet in its present form, they adopted for the names of their letters words formed by the agglutination of the various vocables composing each line of the said Maya epic.
In this most interesting philosophical and historical fact will be found the reason why certain letters having the same value were placed apart, instead of juxtaposed as they naturally should be. What else could have induced Euclid and his collaborators, men of intelligence and learning, to seperate the Epsilon from the Eta, the Theta from the Tau??? to place the Omikron in the middle and the omega at the end of the Alphabet?
In August 1882, the writer published in the "Revista de merida", a daily paper, a Spanish translation of the Maya epic formed by the names of the letters of the Greek Alphabet.