aquiztli (FCbk11f131v)
This iconographic example, featuring a hallucinogenic plant (aquiztli), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a vine-like climbing plant on a stake that has three-dimensionality. The plant has thin branches and small green leaves. The text describes it as having medicinal use, when drunk as an infusion during fasting, in bringing blisters to the surface. But it is also something that burns and causes blisters.
Stephanie Wood
There is one other example of the aquiztli in this digital collection as of November 2025 (see below), but, like this example, it is not a hieroglyph, just an example of the iconography of a particular plant. Interestingly, that illustration does not closely resemble this one.
Stephanie Wood
haquiztli
aquiztli
Stephanie Wood
1577
Jeff Haskett-Wood
sustancias tóxicas, alucinógenas, plantas
There is one other example of the aquiztli in this digital collection as of November 2025 (see below), but, like this example, it is not a hieroglyph, just an example of the iconography of a particular plant. Interestingly, that illustration does not closely resemble this one.
una planta alucinogénica
Stephanie Wood
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 131v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/131v/images/0 Accessed 16 November 2025.
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