Toponymic glyphs I drew yesterday for Codex Black. All but Sa'a Yucu and Quie Yelaag are the actual glyphs used to represent those places, and among these Quie Yelaag is the only fictional place.

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Toponymic glyphs I drew yesterday for Codex Black. All but Sa'a Yucu and Quie Yelaag are the actual glyphs used to represent those places, and among these Quie Yelaag is the only fictional place.

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I just made up a toponymic glyph for the Zapotec city-state of Zaachila!
The lower part is taken from a series of toponymic glyphs for conquered cities, carved in the archaeological site of Monte AlbƔn. It indicates that the glyph above it is the name of a city.
"Zaa" means cloud in zapotec, so I added the cloud glyph (same I used for the Cloud Mountainās glyph, Donajiās village).
Finally, on top of the cloud I added a zapote tree, referencing the nahuatl name for the city: "Teozapotlan".
Curiously, zapotecs call themselves Binni ZĆ”a, āCloud peopleā, while the name Zapotec, āZapote peopleā is what Nahuas called them. Therefore, the glyph contains both distinctive symbols of the Zapotec people.
It kinda makes sense since it is popular belief that, after the fall of Monte AlbĆ”n, the ancient city of Zaachila became the ācapitalā of a Zapotec empire, with Cosijoeza portrayed as the king of the Zapotec people. However, reality is that there was no such thing as a āGreat Zapotec Nationā. From the beginning of the Postclassic to the āconquestā, Oaxaca was divided in countless city-states in constant conflict and with very complex relationships, based on a communitarian organization over any kind of ethnic unity.
For my webcomic Codex Black!
I made yet another Zapotec Toponymic Glyph. This time for the city of Lyobaa, today known as Mitla in Oaxaca.
The nahua glyph for this city, called "Mictlan", represents a skull and a wrapped body. Lyobaa in Zapotec means "Place of Rest" and was the Zapotec religious capital (itās described as some sort of āVaticanā) and also a burial site for the highest ranking nobles.
As with the glyph for Zaachila, I took the lower part from the toponymical glyphs found at Monte AlbƔn, and the skull is based on a relief carved in the tombs of Zaachila. Those reliefs are typically Zapotec and not Mixtec as it is often believed.