citlalin (Mdz63r)

citlalin (Mdz63r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example shows a night sky with stars (in the form of stellar eyes or starry eyes). Star is citlalin. The sky is shaped like an upside-down mound (see tlatelli, mound, for comparison). The eyes have heavy red lids covering the irises about half way. Otherwise, the eyes are white.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See how the Codex Mendoza will sometimes show stars as white dots on a black background (below).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

las estre[-]
llas en el çielo

Gloss Normalization: 

las estrellas en el cielo

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Celestial Phenomena
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
purple
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
half circle
dotted, granular, textured
Keywords: 

night, noche, stars, estrellas, eyes, ojos

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

citlal(li), star, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/citlalin-2

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 63 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 136 out of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

citlalin (Mdz17v)

cicitlallo (Mdz65r)

tlatelli (Mdz10r)