Olin (MH504v)
This simplex glyph for the personal name Olin ("Movement" or "Earthquake," attested here as a man's name) shows a symbol with a round black center and two "wings" that each have three black half-circles in a vertical position.
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Olin was a day name in the 260-day divinatory calendar called the tonalpohualli in Nahuatl. This calendar had a role in various Mesoamerican religions, including the Mixtec.
The black center may be a rubber ball (olli), serving as a phonetic complement. The olin glyph in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco is drawn differently by almost every tlacuilo who submitted census information (with its huge variety of personal name glyphs, occupational glyphs, and some place glyphs). See below for the rendition of olin in the Codex Mendoza and some of the MH variations.
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antonio
ollin
Antonio Olin
Stephanie Wood
1560
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movement, movimiento, earthquakes, terremotos, temblores, nombres de hombres
ol(in), movement or earthquake, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/olin
El Movimiento, o El Temblor
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 504v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=88&st=image
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