Mayan and his Tuuch - T-Shirt

The word tuuch means belly button in Yucatec Maya — a small, playful word with deep cultural roots. The Maya civilization thrived for centuries across what is now Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, and while the great stone cities and temples often steal the spotlight, one of the most enduring legacies of the Maya is their language. Yucatec Maya is still spoken by nearly a million people today, mostly in the Yucatán Peninsula. It’s a living language — not a relic — used in daily conversation, storytelling, ceremonies, and even memes. Words like tuuch remind us that Indigenous identity is not something of the past, but something proudly alive. In Mayan cosmology, the center of the body — the belly button — was symbolically tied to the center of the universe. The Maya believed in powerful connections between body, earth, and sky, so the tuuch wasn’t just anatomy — it was cosmology, lineage, and origin. This design celebrates that continuity with a wink. It’s a fun way to bring awar