Chiyauhcoatl (MH711r)
This colorful compound glyph for the personal name, Chiyauhcoatl (“Swamp Snake” or “Venomous Snake”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a circular body of water, which must represent the marsh or swamp (chiyahuitl). It is swirling with lines of current (movement), and it throws of two types of white turbinate shells with small yellow patches at their bases. Inside the water is a snake (coatl) with a single coil, a yellow and black spotted body, a bifurcated tongue, and a small rattler at the end of its tail.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
serpientes, nombres de hombres, agua, cohuatl
chiyahu(itl), swamp or marsh, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiyahuitl
coa(tl), snake or serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
chiyauhcoa(tl), a viper or venomous snake, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiyauhcoatl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 711r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=500&st=image
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