citlalin (Mdz17v)

Stars (citlalin) can appear like this, as white dots on a black background. But they also sometimes appear as eyes--in the shape of what some scholars call "starry eyes," such as we see in this glyph: https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/yohuallan. In the Codex Borbonicus, we see both dots and eyes together in the representation of night (yohualli): https://interferencia.cl/articulos/el-poder-que-los-eclipses-dieron-los-.... Loic Vauzelle notes how the Codex Borbonicus figure of Citlalinicue shows round white stars on her skirt along with white shells, and Vauzelle sees a relationship between stars and shells in Nahua thought. [See "Clothes with Metaphorical Names and the Representation of Metaphors in the Costumes of the Aztec Gods," in Katarzyna Mikulska and Jerome A. Offner, Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems (Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019), esp. p. 173.]