Ignatius Donnelly
The Origin of Our Alphabet
[Transcribers note: the argument in this section heavily depends on the Bishop Landa Maya alphabet, which has now been discredited.
It has come to us through Bishop Landa, one of the early missionary bishops, who confesses to having burnt a great number of Maya books because they contained nothing but the works of the devil.
Bishop Landa gives us, in addition to the alphabet, the signs which represent the days and months, and which are evidently compounds of the Maya letters.
Ignatius Donnelly
The origin of our alphabet
Bishop Landa preserved this alphabet, which provides insights into early writing systems.