tlanezcayotiliztli (FCbk10f45r)

This iconographic example, featuring an elaborate speech scroll (referred to as a tlanezcayotiliztli in the contemporary Eastern Huastecan keywording in the Digital Florentine Codex), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the keywords chosen by the native-speaker team behind the DFC. Here, the scroll also represents a word or words (tlahtolli). There is no gloss. The contextualizing image shows a woman sitting near a plain white rectangle that is meant to be a cuachtli (large inexpensive cotton cloth). Below this rectangle is a three-dimensional version of a cloth, perhaps also a cuachtli. The woman is speaking, with a thick black volute emerging in front of her face. It is curling upward. Attached to this speech scroll is a red and white flower. This is a special scroll, perhaps referring to “flowery speech” (elegant, poetic, powerful, etc.). But flowers are multivalent, with many readings.