metztli cualo (FCbk7f7r)

This iconographic example, featuring an eclipse of the moon (metztli cualo, a noun and verb) is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the companion text in the Digital Florentine Codex. This example shows a rectangle filled with a turquoise-blue sky. In this sky are two celestial beings. On the left is a white crescent moon, open to the right. Coming out from behind the crescent is an anthropomorphic face in profile, facing right. In front of the face is a purple color. Protruding into this purple space is about half of the sun that is to the right of the moon. This is a sun with an anthropomorphic full frontal face on its side. Its nose, mouth, and chin are all inside the purple space. Its eyes and the bridge of its nose are still yellow, the color of most of the sun with the exception of the rays (orange) and some red details on the face.