Cozcamiyauh (MH507v)

A corn tassel can often have an array of sprigs going different directions as an online detail image shows. So the leaf with the miyahuatl may actually be another sprig of blossoms. As our Online Nahuatl Dictionary shows in various attestations of the term, the curving of the miyahuatl is a diagnostic that was not lost on the Nahua observers and writers. See also how one of the artists of the Codex Mendoza (below) painted the miyahuatl, with two curving strands of blossoms.

There was apparently a female divine force ("diosa") with this name, as mentioned in a 1908 issue of the Anthropos journal (v. 3, p. 1003): "Cozcamiyauh. A onra desta diosa mataban una muger y desque le havían sacado el corazón, cortábanle la cabesa y azían areyto con ella...." (in honor of this goddess, they killed a woman, and after they had taken out her heart, the cut off her head and they made a fuss with it). It is interesting that this name lived on into the Spanish colonial period given these autonomous-era religious associations.