wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 The Maya Pre-Classical 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grautvornix Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 I love your emblems/shields - but this one has some sort of ivy plants growing on it? Looks very nice, but there is one thing puzzling me: This is typically indicating the civ is long gone and the jungle ist starting reclaiming its grounds. At the time we are putting the game Maya were still thriving I thought? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 6 hours ago, Grautvornix said: I love your emblems/shields - but this one has some sort of ivy plants growing on it? Looks very nice, but there is one thing puzzling me: This is typically indicating the civ is long gone and the jungle ist starting reclaiming its grounds. At the time we are putting the game Maya were still thriving I thought? I didn't put much thought into it, honestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thalatta Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 On 23/03/2026 at 5:51 AM, wowgetoffyourcellphone said: The Maya Pre-Classical This didn't look right to me, so I checked: that's not a real Maya symbol, but a Mayanism one (New Age stuff), funnily enough based on an Aztec symbol. You can see the original Aztec one on page 13 of this scan of the Codex Magliabechiano: https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/289019?v=pdf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lopess Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 I like the idea of Mayan glyph being used as icons; many of them are old enough to span the entire period: Ajaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajaw Balam (Jaguar) Kaan (Snake). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted April 19 Author Share Posted April 19 12 hours ago, Thalatta said: This didn't look right to me, so I checked: that's not a real Maya symbol, but a Mayanism one (New Age stuff), funnily enough based on an Aztec symbol. You can see the original Aztec one on page 13 of this scan of the Codex Magliabechiano: https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/289019?v=pdf Nice catch. Any suggestions for a more accurate "symbol" representing them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thalatta Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 1 minute ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said: Nice catch. Any suggestions for a more accurate "symbol" representing them? I think one of the many Maya glyphs would be nice, but I don't know if there's one simbolising the Maya people. The closest I can do for now is to give one referring to one of their main cities, Tikal (the Maya lived in city states, not a unified empire, so it's like I'm giving you a glyph for Athens representing all Hellenes): https://www.famsi.org/research/pitts/MayaGlyphsBook1.pdf, on page 72, maybe the one on the right is the better one (all 4 glyphs mean Tikal, they had many ways to write the same thing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted April 19 Author Share Posted April 19 Thank you. Putting this here for future reference: I think mimicking this aesthetic style would still be nice: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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