Miquiz (MH677v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Miquiz (“Death”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. His eyes are closed, and his hair is wispy and standing out. He is deceased, a semantic indicator for the concept of death (miquiztli).
Stephanie Wood
Hieroglyphs for death in this manuscript more typically show a skull (below). One other glyph, for example, shows a shrouded corpse. The latter is more typical in the Codex Mendoza in its hieroglyphs for “corpse” or “the deceased” (micqui). Another option for micqui in that manuscript is the use of a nude body laid out.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
muerte, muerto, nombres de hombres
miquiz(tli), death, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miquiztli
La Muerte
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 677v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=435&st=image.
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