eyi metztica (T1871:1)

eyi metztica (T1871:1)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph consists of three crescent moons in a horizontal row. The opening of the crescents is on the viewer's right. They have added color, which appears to be a similar color as the background paper, but a bit darker, seemingly yellow.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

These three (eyi) moons (metztli) refer to tributes provided every three months (metztica), an adverb. Metztli is a noun, modified by the -tica suffix. Crescents may be used here for the moons because full moons might look just like generic circles, although sometimes moons were seen to have rabbits in them, as found in the Codex Borgia. In that glyph, the rabbit sits in a rocky vessel full of water, open at the top, and the entire compound is surrounded by a night sky with red and white starry eyes.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

yehey metztica

Gloss Normalization: 

eyi metztica

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
AGN Tierras 1871, exp. 1
Date of Manuscript: 

1558

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Cuauhtla, Morelos

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
numbers
Syntax: 
adverb
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Celestial Phenomena
Numbers, Math
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
horizontal
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
undetermined as yet
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

moons, lunas, months, meses

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

metz(tli), moon, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/cntent/metztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

tres lunas/meses

Image Source: 

Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1871, exp. 1, fol. 28r.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.