mayanalo (TR32r)
This example of iconography from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis shows the impact of starvation ("there is famine," mayanalo) during a crisis in the year 1454. One woman and two men are shown in disarray and with their eyes closed and their bodies turning different directions. Dotted volutes emerge from their mouths and swirl around them, as well.
Stephanie Wood
This adds to the tlacuilo's repertoire in the use of volutes to show, in this case, grave discomfort, involving perhaps moaning or vomiting. The scene is full of visual movement. It does resemble one of the examples of wind (ehecatl) in this collection which also has dotted volutes (see below).
Stephanie Wood
vuo tanta hanbre que mu[-]
rian los onbres danbre
hubo tanta hambre que morían los hombres de hambre
Stephanie Wood
ca. 1550–1563
Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood
scrolls, volutes, volutas, remolinos, rizos, enrollados, mayanani, xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl
mayanani, severe hunger/starvation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mayanani
mayanalo, there is famine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mayanalo
hay hambre
Stephanie Wood
Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 32 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f89.item.zoom
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