Nezahual (MH504v)
This simplex glyph for the personal name Nezahual ("Ritual Fasting," attested here as a man's name) shows a frontal view of an upright, lidded, ceramic vessel with handles on at least three sides. The pot has shading, which gives is a three-dimensionality.
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It is unclear how the pot relates to fasting (nezahualli) unless it provides food for breaking the fast or water, or the like, that might be allowed during the fast.
This Nahua name is preceded in the gloss by a Christian first name (Toribio). He may have been named after Toribio de Benavente, also known as Motolinia ("One Who is Poor or Afflicted"). This was the first word he learned in Nahuatl, and he went on to learn the language well. He lived in the monastery in Huejotzingo. Doing a quick search for the name "Toribio" will produce an impressive result.
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doribio
neçahual
Toribio Nezahual
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood
ceramics, pottery, cerámica, barro, jugs, jars, jarras, fasting, fasts, ayunos
nezahual(li), ritual fasting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nezahualli
Ayuno Ritual
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 504v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=88&st=image
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