Quiyauh (MH491v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Quiyauh ["It Has Rained," from quiahuitl) or quiyahuitl), meaning "Rain" or "Rainstorm," is here attested as a man’s name. It shows a triangular-shaped flow of water coming downward (as though from the sky). It has black lines of current in the flow and a droplet of water at the bottom of the flow. Given the small concentric circle inside the droplet, and given the association with the chalchihuitl green stone with water, some suggest this is a bead.
Stephanie Wood
Rain is a day sign in the calendar. It is crucial for rain-fed farming, and it has associations with the divine force or deity of rain, Tlaloc.
gaspar guiyauh
Gaspar Quiyauh
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood
rains, lluvia, quiyahuitl
quiyahui(tl), to rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl
Ha Llovido
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 491v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=64&st=image .
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