Cipac (MH624r)
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 profile position, facing upward, with its mouth open. Its body is spiny or spiky.
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.
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çipac
Pedro Cipac
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
cocodrilos, espinosos, boca abierta, animales, calendarios, signos de días, nombres de hombres
cipac(tli), crocodile, caiman, or alligator, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cipactli
Cocodrilo
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 624r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=330st=image.
This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).