Mochiuh (MH521r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mochiuh ("Done" or "Amen," here, attested as a man's name) is a six-pointed star shape and a round center. One of the points may have been crossed out. Small circles also appear in between the points.
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This glyph, which has more points than usual but is reminiscent of a quincunx, appears to have an Indigenous cosmological meaning, perhaps related to the celestial realm of the sun and stars. It is also possible that it ties in with Indigenous Christianity. The expression "ma iuh mochihua" was the phrase Nahuas learned to to say "Amen," or "Let it be done."
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pao mochiuh
Pablo Mochiuh
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Stephanie Wood and José Aguayo-Barragán
amen, oraciones, prayers, reino celestial, celeste, cosmología, nombres de hombres
mochihua, to be done, to be made, to occur, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mochihua
chihua, to do, to make, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chihua
Hecho, o Amen
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=121&st=image
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