Acaye (MH613v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Acaye (acayetl, incense stick) is attested here as a man's name. It is a vertical piece of reed or cane (acatl), where the handle is about one third of the cane (at the bottom), and the top two-thirds has been dipped in an aromatic substance or it is a bundle of rolled tobacco leaves or fragrant herbs.
Stephanie Wood
Iyetl and acayetl are a challenge to distinguish visually, as the examples below will attest. In his translations of the Cantares Mexicanos, John Bierhorst (Ballads of the Lords of New Spain, 2010, 24, note 117) calls iyetl "smoking tubes" and acayetl "reed incense." Smoking tubes called acayetl, acacuahuitl, or yetlalli, were stuffed with tobacco and sometimes liquidambar and/or aromatic herbs, according to Berdan and Anawalt (Codex Mendoza, 1992, v. 2, 218).
juā acaihe
Juan Acaye
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
tabaco, perfumes, incienso, olores, aromas, tubos para fumar, sticks, tobacco, nombres de hombres
acaye(tl), a type of cane or reed filled with (or dipped into) aromatic substances, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acayetl
aca(tl), reed or cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
iye(tl), tobacco, perfume, or incense, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iyetl
La Caña Aromática, o el Tubo Para Fumar
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 613v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=309st=image.
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