Custom Mayan Glyphs Tattoo

About Mayan Writing

Maya hieroglyphic writing known as Mayan Glyphs, was the writing system of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica, The calligraphic style and pictorial complexity of Maya glyphs are like no other writing system, it is the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas. Once considered an unsolvable enigma, the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs has been advancing rapidly in the past few decades, presently it is the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered.

The Mayan writing was a form of hieroglyphics, or pictographic representations of words similar to Egyptian writing, as well as a phonetic system that represented the sounds of human speech, similar to our alphabet. The Maya hieroglyphic writing is arguably one of the most visually striking writing systems of the world. It is also very complex, with hundreds of unique signs or glyphs in the form of humans, animals, supernatural objects, and abstract designs. These signs are either logograms (to express meaning) or syllabograms (to denote sound values), and are used to write words, phrases, and sentences. In fact, the Maya can write anything that they can say.

Writing Your Name with Maya Glyphs / Creating your Mayan Glyphs Tattoo

The Mayan Word/Name Translation is done by using the phonetic eulogistic translation. It means that a suitable Maya glyph is allocated by the sound of letters. The Maya writing system had an extensive set of phonetic signs that represented syllables rather than individual sounds like in alphabetic systems , in order to create a tattoo design based on a Europeanized name/word we have to select one glyph that best match the sound of each letter focused on the mayan sounds and not the meanings (since that name/word did not exist in Mayan world)
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Examples of Mayan writing have been carefully studied for at least a hundred years, the system was not deciphered until relatively recently. Now it is possible for you to do things like write your name in Mayan glyphs. Just as we use letters for sounds representing the writing of our names, mayan glyphs can be used to represent the sounds of our language and create your own customized Mayan Glyphs Tattoo drawn with your name, initials or any word you choose.

We are the only tattoo artists specializing in drawing Mayan Glyphs for tattoos, we are ready to create a one-of-a-kind, personalized custom tattoo just for you!