Mimich (MH521r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mimich ("Fish," attested here as a man's name) consists of a frontal view of a vertical fish (michin). The fish has a line drawn the length of its body, plus scales and small fins coming off the edges of the fish. It almost appears to be a double fish.
Stephanie Wood
The name is reduplicated in the gloss, and the nearly doubling of the fish might possibly be a visual reduplication, but there are several artists in the Huexotzinco area who have a straight, vertical line down the middle of the fish (as in this case).
There is a Mimich, for which this man may have been named, who was a Cloud Serpent paired with Xiuhnel and associated with hunting. Magnus Pharao Hansen defines Mimich as "Little Fish." [See his blog from 2014, "Nahuatl Names: The Nahuatl names in the 1544 census of Morelos."]
Stephanie Wood
gasbar mimich
Gaspar Mimich
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood, José Aguayo-Barragan
fish, peces, pescado, hunting, cazar, Serpientes de las Nubes, Cloud Serpents
mich(in), fish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/michin
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=121&st=image
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