motlehuia (FCbk10f111r)

This iconographic example, featuring a man experiencing a fever (with the verb, motlehuia), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a ¾ view of a man facing left, sitting on a wooden stool, wearing only a white cotton loincloth. The stool is on a landscape of either water or grass (blue-green), with soil (brown) in the foreground. The man has a flat earthenware vessel in his right hand, bringing it up to his mouth, presumably for a drink. Surrounding the man are more than three dozen yellow flames in the air, giving the clue that he is very hot from the fever, almost literally burning up. The DFC keywording team provides the noun for fever, netlahuiliztli. Fire is tletl, and flame is tlenenepilli. Illness or disease is cocoliztli. What the man is drinking may be medicine (patli, or pahtli with the glottal stop).