eyi metztica (T1871:1)
This simplex glyph consists of three crescent moons in a horizontal row. The opening of the crescents is on the viewer's right. They have added color, which appears to be a similar color as the background paper, but a bit darker, seemingly yellow.
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These three (eyi) moons (metztli) refer to tributes provided every three months (metztica), an adverb. Metztli is a noun, modified by the -tica suffix. Crescents may be used here for the moons because full moons might look just like generic circles, although sometimes moons were seen to have rabbits in them, as found in the Codex Borgia. In that glyph, the rabbit sits in a rocky vessel full of water, open at the top, and the entire compound is surrounded by a night sky with red and white starry eyes.
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yehey metztica
eyi metztica
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moons, lunas, months, meses
metz(tli), moon, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/cntent/metztli
tres lunas/meses
Single-page codex, Archivo General de la Nación, México, Ramo de Tierras, vol. 1871, exp. 1, fol. 28r.
The Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), México, holds the original manuscript. This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the AGN and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.