Matlactli Once Cuetzpalin (FCbk4f7r)

This colorful painting of a simplex glyph-plus-notation has as its focus the date Matlactli Once Cuetzpalin ("Eleven Lizard," or 11-Lizard), in the religious divinatory calendar called the tonalpohualli. The glyph is a dark gray lizard (cuetzpalin) in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Its mouth is open. Its tail is long. Connecting to the lizard by lines is the notation for the number eleven (matlactli once), which literally says ten plus one and has nothing to do with the Spanish word for eleven, once. The notation involves two rows of five circles painted red, connected by horizontal lines. The extra one appears above the left-most circle in the top row of five. A short vertical line connects it. The groupings by five suggest a counting by fingers.