The first was as an emblem of creativity and genius.
In this case, however, the emblem glyph lacks the k'uhul expression.
They had forgotten, for example, that they had quilted for many years, or that they collected police emblems or ornamental shoes.
The translatability of the emblem enables permeation while permeation requires a translatable emblem.
Here, the fantastical sphinx, herself a freak of nature, becomes the emblem of good design, abstract and laden with symbolic meaning.
Although these claims were pioneering work, they are problematic insofar as their hieroglyphic evidence did not match the established definition of emblem glyphs.
These symbols functioned as emblems of the sources of power for the shaman who earned the right to wear them.
Furthermore, the mostly fruitless attempts to identify emblem glyphs have been made more difficult by fewer and less well-understood hieroglyphic texts.
