wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 The Maya Pre-Classical 1 Quote 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 Quote 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thalatta Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lopess Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted 2 hours ago Author Share Posted 2 hours ago 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thalatta Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted 1 hour ago Author Share Posted 1 hour ago Thank you. Putting this here for future reference: I think mimicking this aesthetic style would still be nice: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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