teotlaquilli (FCbk11f197r)

This iconographic example features a sunset (teotlaquilli), the event of the divinity “entering its house,” and a reference to a night-blooming flower. The image is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a black-line drawing in a frontal view of a sun and a profile view of a sleeping man lying down. This sun (drawn in a very European style, with a face and many rays) could be going down or coming up; it is difficult to tell. Below this image, on the same page, is a sun peeking over a mountain, and a seated man, awake and fully clothed, pointing to the sun. One of these images is a sunset and one is a sunrise. We have chosen the sunset to be the one where the man is sleeping, and the one with the man all dressed and having his traveling pack at the ready to get going to be the sunrise. But the DFC team saw it the opposite way. But regardless, both suns are very European in style, and yet the comment that equates the sun with teotl (divinity, deity, etc.) is notable for its Nahua conceptualization.