malinalli (Mxnus26)
This is a black-line drawing of the element malinalli (tall and twisted grass) has been carved from the compound place name Malinaltepec (see below). The glyph shows some dark and light twisted grass that was folded in half and then twisted, creating a loop at the bottom and another window in the middle.
Stephanie Wood
ca. 1590
Jeff Haskett-Wood
grasses, medicinal herbs, hierbas medicinales, hay, paja
malinalli, tall grass, twisted grass, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/malinalli
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