Mitla (Roogeuii) Mitla Roogeuii miqui(i): corpse, dead person -tlán: place of, at -tlah: place where there is an abundance of something “Place of the Dead” Zapotec Roogeuii: At the Nanche Tree 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) 189-190. Wall painting in the North Group, Mitla.