huauhtli (FCbk10f132r)
huauhtli (FCbk10f132r)
This iconographic example, featuring an amaranth plant (huauhtli), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text on the page preceding this image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a frontal view of an amaranth plant.
Stephanie Wood
Huauhtli often appears as a phonetic syllable (-huauh- or -cuauh-), the latter being the stem for the term for wood (cuahuitl). The visual, however, will typically be a stalk with clusters of seed-producing flowers. And sometimes huauhtli is shown as a group of dots (the seeds). One example in this collection, however, shows a container full of the red seeds. And one iconographic representation shows bundles of flowering stalks on a petate, where a man is taking the seeds off.
Stephanie Wood
oauhtli
huauhtli
Stephanie Wood
1577
Jeff Haskett-Wood
plantas, planta, comida
huauh(tli), amaranth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huauhtli
el amaranto
Stephanie Wood
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 39v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/39v/images/0 Accessed 10 September 2025
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