malinalli (T1735:2:109)

malinalli (T1735:2:109)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This green painting of the element malinalli (twisted grass) has been carved from the compound personal name glyph Malinalocan (see below). This element shows two dark green clumps of grass entwined from a base. The ends are tripartite.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Malinalli is also a day name in the tonalpohualli, the religious divinatory calendar.

Source Manuscript:

AGN Tierras 1735, exp. 2, f. 109

Date of Manuscript:

1566

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Coyoacan

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Colors:

white/neutral

Keywords:

hierbas torcidas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

malinalli, tall grass, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/malinalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

las hierbas torcidas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1735, exp. 2, fol. 109.

Image Source, Rights:

The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.