Ocotitlan (MH594r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Ocotitlan (“Near the Torch Pines,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a vertical pine tree with a leader and four branches. At the tip of each branch and sometimes lower on the branches are circular white shapes. Otherwise, the branches are covered with pone needles. This tree is sitting on the upper beam of a doorway leading into a house or building [cal(li)] which provides a semantic locative for the suffix -titlan. The building is shown in a frontal view which is s positioning that increased over the Spanish colonial period.