cuicatl (Verg10r)
This black-line drawing of the element (cuicatl) from the compound glyph for the personal name Cen Icuic (“Entirely His Song,” attested there as a man’s name) shows a person's head in profile, facing the viewer's right. A segmented speech scroll emerges from the mouth. The person's hair is bound up at the back of the head in a way reminiscent of women, except that the two points of hair above the forehead are not there.
Stephanie Wood
Scrolls for songs will sometimes have interventions (designs, segmentation, special colors) that speech scrolls do not typically have. See other examples below.
Stephanie Wood
1539
Jeff Haskett-Wood
speech, speak, hablar, voluta
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/ihcuiloaCV10rAtomicVerb.png?itok=TemytvUw)
cuica(tl), song, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicatl
hablar
Stephanie Wood
Codex Vergara, folio 10r, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f27.item.zoom
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