Xipe (Mxnus26)
This simplex glyph may stand for the personal name Xipe or the Yopi ethnicity. It has a strong association with the Temple of Yopitli (sometimes seen as just the stem, Yopi or Yopico) and the people devoted to the deity or divine force which had associations with Xipe Totec. The shape has three points and a twisted cord tie around the middle. It is colored red and white. It seems to be a hat or cap made of fabric. The locative suffix (-co) is not shown visually.
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Besides being used as a possible personal name and a place name, this glyph also stands for the "month" of Tlacaxipehualiztli, the "Flaying of Humans." Various example of this month glyph appear in a table created for "An Introduction to Nahuatl Hieroglyphic Writing, the 2013 Maya Meetings and Workshops, University of Texas, Austin, January 15 ‐ 17, 2013," p. 5.
Frances Berdan and Patricia Anawalt (The Codex Mendoza, 1992, vol. 1, p. 230) write "This cap was so characteristic of the god Xipe that it served as an ideograph for the group of people most closely associated with the 'Flayed God,' the Yopes. This glyph also appears on folio 47r of the Codex Mendoza and 13r of the Matrícula de Tributos, representing the month of Tlacaxipehualiztli, during which this deity was especially honored."
Today there is a Santa Bárbara Yopico that is part of Azcapotzalco. This town embraces the glyph from the Codex Mendoza, as shown in their page on Facebook. Perhaps the Yopes were a migrant group from Oaxaca that formed a settlement in or near Tenochtitlan. According to Wikipedia, there is a Zapotec deity "Yopi" that is represented on urns from the Classic Period and is apparently associated with Xipe Totec.
See also the glyph for Chipetlan, below, right, which is said to have an association with the deity Xipe Totec (also Xipetotec).
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ca. 1590
Jeff Haskett-Wood
fuerzas divinas, nombres, etnicidades
Xipe, a divinity or divine force, the "Flayed One", https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xipe
Yopico, a place that was important in the treatment of war captives in ceremonies of sacrifice, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yopico
(un nombre o una etnicidad)
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