metztli (T1871:1)
This simplex glyph for the moon (metztli), representing a month, is also representative of the adverb, metztica (monthly, or each month). It is a yellow crescent, open to the viewer's right.
Stephanie Wood
This single moon is part of a group of three moons in the original manuscript, and the corresponding text explains that a certain cloth tribute item had to be gathered together and presented every three months ("hey metztica").
Stephanie Wood
1558
moons, lunas, meses, calendarios, months
metztli, moon, crescent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/metztli
Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1871, exp. 1, fol. 28r.
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.