Quiyauh (MH648v)
This painting of the simplex glyph for the personal name Quiyauh (“It Has Rained,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a stream of water--triangular with a circular droplet or bead at the top and lines of current showing movement. The entire glyph has a turquoise blue watercolor painted over it.
Stephanie Wood
Quiyahuitl is a day sign in the 260-day divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli, which gives it a religious significance. If this is a calendrical name, the numerical coefficient has dropped away. That could represent a fading of the tradition or an effort to suppress the association with pre-contact religious practices that might have angered the colonial clergy.
Stephanie Wood
pedro quiauh
Pedro Quiyauh
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
water, rain, lluvia, día, calendario, tonalpohualli
quiyahu(itl), rain and a day name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl
Lluvia
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=379&st=image
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