cempohualli (Mdz19r)

This multicolored painting is an iconographic example for the noun cempohualli (twenty). But it is also a sign for a day (ilhuitl) or some number of days, in this case twenty days. It involves concentric circles, including a pinwheel effect filling in between the two largest circles. The pinwheel has colors of red, green, yellow, and turquoise blue. A smaller inner ring is red. Around the perimeter are four tiny circles, evenly placed, creating something of a quincunx. These tiny circles are also red, green, yellow, and turquoise blue.