Yaonahuac (Mdz51r)

This compound glyph for the place name Yaonahuac shows a shield with a horizontal, obsidian blade-imbedded club partially hidden behind it. The club is apparently wooden, being painted a terracotta color. Four rectangular obsidian blades (black) are imbedded in the end to the viewer's right. The club has a knob-shaped handle on the end to the viewer's left. The shield has concentric circles, with the outer rim being white and the inner circle being painted yellow. This circle has an upright cross on it, making it quadripartite. Thin black lines running in an X pattern, out from the center, are then capped at the right and left sides, with lines forming something like triangles. The substance used to make these patterns might have been something similar to the reeds of a petlatl (petate), but that is just speculation. Up to the right, above the club and shield, and attached by another thin black line, is a vertical white rectangle. Emanating out of that rectangle are three, swirling and curling speech scrolls, also painted yellow.