Ce Quiyahuitl (FCbk4f28v)

Ce Quiyahuitl (FCbk4f28v)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph plus notation for Ce Quiyahuitl (One-Rain or 1-Rain) comes from the Florentine Codex. The number one is a small circle painted red that appears in the top of a square that has a border on all sides. Below the number one are some swirling clouds that have three-dimensionality. Short streams of water with droplets on the end of each one are falling down from the clouds. The staggering of these raindrops at different heights provides a type of visual movement, too, as though they are falling through the air. The clouds and rain are black line drawings with no added color other than some gray shading.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

One Rain was a date in the tonalpohualli, 260-day divinatory calendar. Glyphs involving dates are often boxed.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ce quiauitl

Gloss Normalization:

ce quiyahuitl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

numbers

Syntax:

visible movement

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Movement

Numbers, Math

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Water

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

gray

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

boxed in

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

three-dimensionality

Keywords:

tonalpohualli, días, fechas, calendarios, números, lluvia

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ce, one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ce
quiyahui(tl), rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Uno Lluvia, o 1-Lluvia

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_10615?/sp=58&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

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