tlatlauhqui (Mdz51r)

The reference to red is like most color names in this collection, where Gordon Whittaker notes, "color terms themselves are almost always represented by the relevant colors, not by logograms or phonetic spellings." [See Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs, 2021, 94–95.] But in this example, the mountain is not just painted red, the circle is added and filled with red to help support the reading. The word for red here involves a reduplication that is retained in the place name where this element appears. And the tepetl (hill or mountain), being also painted red in that compound, might be considered a visual reduplication.