Introduction:

The two sets of objects I’ve chosen to compare are hieroglyphs from the Mayan culture and icons from a weather app.

1.What’s being communicated?

They both mean “water” and “eyes”. 

2.What concepts need to be learned?

The Mayans may have thought they looked like this symbol in the old days and recorded it.

But it means more than the icon in the app; water doesn’t just mean water it also means expected rainfall in the future. And the eyes are not just eyes, they also represent visibility in this case.

3.What metaphors are being used?

I’m guessing that the water in the Mayan script is more in the style of a splash, and the text representing the eye I can slightly interpret as an eye surrounded by a lot of eyelashes surrounding the eye.

The icons in the weather forecast are relatively easy to understand, with the shape of a water drop and the shape of an eye.