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) still in this period (c. 1541). 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) or chiyantli, 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.