Izquitlan (MH496v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Izquitlan shows a very symmetrical flower with four petals, a central circle, and four rectangular points between the petals. Is is like a quincunx. The root word, izquitl), can refer to flowers and to popcorn. The -tlan (locative suffix) is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
This flower is remarkably like others, such as the matlalin, and the glyphs for tonalli (day, sun, personal life force/energy).
ysquitlan barrio
Izquitlan barrio
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flowers, flores, cosmos, direcciones cardinales, sun, sol, day, día
izqui(tl), popcorn and flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/izquitl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 496v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=71&st=image
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