ilhuitl (Mglb4v)

This example of iconography, taken from a painting of a cloth, cloak featuring five flowers in the Magliabechi Codex, may represent the word "day" (ilhuitl), and it could refer to one day (cemilhuitl) or a twenty-day cycle. This sign is the lower right one of the five “flowers.” Note how it compares favorably to the glyph for ilhuitl from the Codex Mendoza (below). Here, it consists of a pinwheel-like design inside a large circle on a pink background. The large circle has concentric circles inside the pinwheel, consisting of an eye with a red eyelid, a red pupil, and a white iris, all with a yellow band around the eye. The pinwheel portion involves multiple colors, red, yellow, turquoise blue, and green. On the outside of the perimeter of the large circle are four small circles, placed so that, if connected, they form something of an X. These smaller circles also have an array of colors, from upper left, blue, green, yellow, then red.