Pantzilin (MH513r)

The absence of the final "i" on the verb tzilini, may suggest a preterit tense is intended (The Bell Rang?). Or perhaps tzilin was meant as a noun here. This glyph does not visually capture the sound of a bell ringing, which would be really interesting. The autonomous-era type of bell (coyolli) as shown on folio 44 recto of the Codex Mendoza (see below) has little sound scrolls coming out of the bottom. The coyolli (jingle bells) were usually small copper or gold bells, but this one for the verbs tzilini or tzilinia looks more like a church bell, showing Spanish influence. It has a wide mouth and a protruding clapper. The loop at the top does coincide with the loop of some of the coyolli bells, which could hang from jewelry or from a leather thong around ankles, for instance, when danced. Juan José Batalla Rosado (2018, 96) includes the various glyphs related to the verbs tzilini/tzizlinia in his study of visual loans, given that the iconography of these bells has been greatly influenced by exposure to European bells. He also points to the new occupation of bell ringer and its seeming neologisms tlatzilini or tlatziliniani (2018, 97).