Cipac (MH622r)
This black and white drawing of the glyph for the personal name Cipac ("Crocodile," attested here as a man's name) shows the animal in a vertical position with its mouth open. Its body is spiny or spiky. Cipactli is a day sign that would have usually carried a (changeable) companion number from 1 to 13, but that was becoming somewhat less common by the time of this manuscript (1560).
Stephanie Wood
This name is a day sign. Originally, a name like this would have a number attached to it. But calendrical names were evolving at the time of this manuscript (1560), often dropping their numbers. This day sign comes from the tonalpohualli, the 260-day divinatory calendar. Calendrics figure importantly in Nahuas' religious views of the cosmos. The thirteen-day cycle that was started by One-Cipactli was an auspicious time to be born according to a downloadable publication hosted by Mexicolore.
Stephanie Wood
peDro
çipac
Pedro Cipac
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
cocodrilos, calendarios, tonalpohualli, nombres de días, nombres de hombres, cipac
cipac(tli), crocodile, caiman, alligator, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cipactli
Cocodrilo
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 622r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=326st=image.
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