Zanoc (MH525r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Zanoc (“Only Now,” or "The Fly," attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of what seems to be a fly (zayolin). The fly has two wings, four visible legs, and a head with two eyes.
Stephanie Wood
Is the fly meant as a semi-homophone for Zanoc? Or is the gloss wrong, and Zayol is meant as the person's name? This person is described in the gloss as a centecpanpixqui, a guardian over twenty tribute payers (i.e. taxpayers).
Stephanie Wood
po. çāoc centecpapixq~
Pedro Zanoc, Tecpanpixqui
Stephanie Wood
1560
tributes, guardians, guardianes, veinte, tributarios, abejas, banderas, zan, oc, nombres de hombres
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Zanoc_MH525r_SmplxPersName.png?itok=TpwnrSYV)
zan, only, just, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zan
zanoc, only now, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zanoc
oc, still, yet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/oc
zan no, also, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zan-no
zayol(in), a fly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zayolin
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 525r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=129&st=image.
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![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/Zanoc_MH525r_Context.png)