Chicomoztoc (Azca11) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Chicomoztoc (Azca11)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This brown, red, and white painting provides an iconographic example for the place name Chicomoztoc ("At the Seven Caves").

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, but content about the migration from Aztlan to about 1527

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Landscape Features

Religion (Indigenous)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Teeth Protruding/Noticeable

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

roots are visible

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Chicomoztoc, a place name, legendary place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicomoztoc

Image Source:

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=11&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Historical Contextualizing Image: