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.
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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).
Magnus Pharao Hansen defines Mimich as "Little Fish." [See his blog from 2014, "Nahuatl Names: The Nahuatl names in the 1544 census of Morelos."] There is a Mimich, for which this man may have been named, who was a Cloud Serpent paired with Xiuhnel and associated with hunting. And the translators of the Primeros Memoriales say that Xiuhnel and Mimich were prominent figures in many migration stories of central Mexican cultures. See the Sullivan and Nicholson edition of the PM (1997, 135).
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gasbar mimich
Gaspar Mimich
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1560
Stephanie Wood, José Aguayo-Barragan
fish, peces, pescado, hunting, cazar, Serpientes de las Nubes, Cloud Serpents, nombres de hombres
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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