Macuiltoch (MH535r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph with added notation for the personal name Macuiltoch (“Five Rabbit,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of a vertical rabbit, looking upward, with its front paws in the air. Rabbit is both a day sign and a year sign in the Mesoamerican calendars. When it is a name, as in this case, it is a day sign in the tonalpohualli, the count of days in the 260-day calendar. Above the rabbit are five black dots, meant to convey the number five. A couple of these dots have lines going down toward the rabbit's head or mouth. The rabbit's eye is open, its ears are long, its tail is short, and its coat has some texturing.
Stephanie Wood
petro.macuiltoch
Pedro Macuiltoch
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
dates, fechas, calendario, numbers, números, rabbits, conejos, tonalpohualli, signos de los días, signos de los años, year signs, xiuhpohualli, turquesa, xihuitl
toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli
Cinco Tochtli, o 5-Tochtli
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 535r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=149&st=image
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