yollotl (Mdz65r)

yollotl (Mdz65r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a simplex glyph of a heart (yollotl). The heart is red and yellow. It is ragged or curling at the top. The yellow part is a wavy, horizontal yellow band across the middle. The rest is red.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This yollotl glyph is much more in the pre-contact style than, for example, the heart glyph for the personal name Yollo. It has a similar coloring to the other internal organ, teltapach (liver). See below for some comparisons.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
red
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
wavy
Keywords: 

hearts, corazones, corazón, rojo, amarillo

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

yollo(tl), heart, life, spirit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yollotl
yollo(tli), heart; a measurement, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yollotli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el corazón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 65 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00...

Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)

See Also: 

Yolloxonecuillan (Mdz16v)

Yollo (MH639v)

teltapach (Mdz10v)