Your Name in Mayan Glyphs Pendant

Our unique, personalized pendants are adorned with your name or any word you choose using the ancient hieroglyphic writing of the Maya. The base of the pendant is 0.925 sterling-quality silver. The glyphs may be reproduced using either silver or gold. The delicate craftsmanship of these pendants, hand-made in Yucatan, cannot be found elsewhere. Buy one for every member of your family so everyone can celebrate Maya history and culture.

Preview Your Custom Mayan Glyphs Pendant!

To see your name in Mayan glyphs on our pendant, enter your name in the box to the right, select a style and click Preview. After your name is displayed, click Add To Cart to add the pendant to our Paypal Shopping Cart. Each pendant is limited to 10 characters, using only the letters A to Z.

The preview is a digital rendering of your pendant. Because each pendant is a custom, hand-tooled and polished piece of jewelry, we can't guarantee that your pendant will look exactly as you see it here. These pendants are the result of dedicated craftmanship and no two are exactly alike.

About Mayan Writing

The Maya developed an advanced civilization in the Southwest of Mexico and especially at Chichén Itzá, located in the center of modern Yucatan state. Among their many accomplishments were complex systems of architecture, mathematics, astronomy and a written method of communications.

Their 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. They wrote in books called Codices that had folding pages made of softened deer hide, tree bark or linen. They used ink made from different colored pigments found in their natural environment. Unfortunately, most of their books have been lost to history. Only three Codices survive today and are kept in museums located in Spain, France and Germany.

The Maya also carved huge standing stones using hieroglyphs to record their histories. These stones are called “stelae” and were public records of important events as well as the deeds of the rulers of the city.