Tocuillan (MH612r)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Tocuillan shows the flag or banner (panitl)] presumably associated with the festival devoted to Huitzilopochtli and the fifteenth month, Panquetzaliztli, in the xiuhpohualli calendar. It is vertical and facing toward the viewer's right, It has three black and two white horizontal bars on the upright, rectangular banner. The black stripes have small white borders. The banner is on a stick or pole with a device at the top, something like a cap, with two streamers flowing down to the left. The streamers have black and white stripes, too. The flag must provide a semantic indication for the place in some way, for the breakdown of Tocuillan might be (Our Worms Nearby), and this does not resonate with the flag. This same flag is seen in some glyphs that are labeled Tocuiltecatl, which is a title that designates a senior civil and military dignitary, according to A. Wimmer (2004) in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl.