Teochiapan (Mdz16r)
This compound glyph for the place name Teochiapan is comprised of three main components. The first, at the top, is a half-sun disc, the expression for divine force(s) (teotl). This is a half-circle with an elaborate design inside it that includes points and semi-circles and may colors, including yellow, red, green, turquoise, and white. The second comprises a small amount of chia seeds (chian) consisting of black dots on a gray background, and, surrounding that, a half-circle stream of water (atl), or more likely here, apantli), standardly painted turquoise blue and with white turbinate shells and wbite droplets/beads splashing off the stream.
Stephanie Wood
The water either underlines the "a" sound in the place name or provides the -apan locative (on the water), which comes from apantli. The "a" sound may be provided both by the chia seeds and the water, and therefore duplicated.
Stephanie Wood
teochiapan. puo
Teochiapan, pueblo
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
water, shells, agua, caracoles, deidades, deities, divinidades, divinities, chia seeds, chian
teo(tl), divine force(s); also, sun disc https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teotl
chian, chia seeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chian
apan(tli), canal, channel, or waterway, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli
-apan (locative suffix), on or at the waters of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apan-0
-pan (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
"0n the sacred Water Chia" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. 208; the authors also wonder about the possibility of "On the Sacred Chinampa")
Codex Mendoza, folio 16 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 42 of 188.
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).