Tlatzalan Tetl Onoc (CQ)

This compound glyph for the place name Tlatzalan Tetl Onoc ("At the Gorge Lies the Stone"?) has two main features. One is a stone (tetl). The stone seems to be lying (onoc) in the midst of some cacti. The stone is upright, and it has entwined, swirling, three-dimensional parts with various shades of red/pink and turquoise/sky blue. The three cacti are connected by a black line, which may be meant to show that the rock is in their midst. This line and the location of the cacti might also indicate a depression in the land where the stone is located, and if so, this may also convey a sense of the gorge (tlatzalan) mentioned in the gloss for the place name.