Xicco (Mdz20v)

The umbilical, like other parts of human anatomy, might be lent here to some topographical feature, just as the shoulder might represent a bend in a river or a nose could speak to a peak. The red and yellow recall the slit at the bottom of the tepetl from which water can ooze, as we see in the place name glyph Ixicayan. It is also reminiscent of the top of the arm, at the acolli, when the bone protrudes and from which liquid can escape (see Acolhuacan, below, right). Access to the inner world of the body is reminiscent of access to the underworld, through mountain springs and caves. Note how the caves (oztotl) below have this same red and yellow lining along with the curly outcroppings of rock, like the tepetl. We are restoring to the town name the "c" of the stem "xic-" that got elided with the locative suffix -co in the gloss.