Chicome Cuetzpalin (TR15r)

Chicome Cuetzpalin (TR15r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This combined simplex glyph for a lizard [cuetzpal(in)] and notation for seven (chicome) is a date. The lizard is painted turquoise blue, but it has protruding white fangs and a protruding red tongue. Its body is shown in a bird's eye view, and it is positioned at an angle, head up, and leaning toward the right. The seven ones that comprise the notation are grouped as four vertical ones and a black line (a visual conjunction) connecting those ones to three more horizontal ones, creating the equivalent of a mathematical phrase, 4 + 3 = 7.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This day sign comes from the tonalpohualli, the 260-day divinatory calendar. Calendrics figure importantly in Nahuas' religious views of the cosmos.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

Syntax:

conjunction: -on- or -om- (visual)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Numbers, Math

Religion (Indigenous)

Teeth Protruding/Noticeable

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Tongue Protruding/Noticeable

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

right to left

Keywords:

tonalpohualli, días, fechas, calendarios, animales, lagartija, lagarto

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chicome, seven, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicome
cuetzpal(in), a lizard, an iguana, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuetzpalin

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 15 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f55.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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