Chiconxochitl (MH755v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chiconxochitl (“Seven-Flower” or “7-Flower) is attested here as a woman’s name. It shows a frontal view of what is perhaps a quincunx shape, with two concentric circles and six, evenly-spaced radiating lines between them, like spokes on a wheel. Coming off the outside of the larger circles are groups of short lines at what could be called the four cardinal points. This is a calendrical name, drawn from the religious divinatory calendar of 260 days, called the tonalpohualli. This glyph is unusual in that the number is not obviously visible, and the “flower” has been altered into what seems to be something else.
Stephanie Wood
From early into the Spanish-colonial era, the clergy were trying to discourage the use of the pre-contact calendar in naming practices, but such practices lived on, even if somewhat altered. Ink has been smeared over this glyph in an apparent attempt to exclude it from the list. A footprint nearby may suggest that the woman had left the settlement.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
quincunces, siete, números, flores, tonalpohualli, calendarios, nombres de días, nombres de mujeres
chicome, seven, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicome
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
Siete-Flor o 7-Flor
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 755v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=589&st=image
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