Mitla (Guhdz Bedkoi) Mitla Guhdz Bedkoi miqui(i): corpse, dead person -tlán: place of, at -tlah: place where there is an abundance of something “Place of the Dead” Zapotec Guhdz Bedkoi: Hill of the Turkey John Pohl, The Lintel Paintings of Mitla and the Function of the Mitla Palaces, Mesoamerican Architecture as a Cultural Symbol, ed. Jeff Karl Kowalski (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) 186-189. Codex Bodey, page 31.