Mimich (MH483r)
This simplex glyph for the personal name Mimich ("Fish," attested here as a man's name) shows a horizontal fish facing toward the viewer's right. Its eye and mouth appear to be open. Its body is scaled, and it has four small fins and a tail.
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The gloss for this name includes a reduplication of the first syllable, but there is no corresponding visual reduplication. Magnus Pharao Hansen defines Mimich as "Little Fish." [See his blog from 2014, "Nahuatl Names: The Nahuatl names in the 1544 census of Morelos."] There is a Mimich, for which this man may have been named, who was a Cloud Serpent paired with Xiuhnel and associated with hunting. And the translators of the Primeros Memoriales say that Xiuhnel and Mimich were prominent figures in many migration stories of central Mexican cultures. See the Sullivan and Nicholson edition of the PM (1997, 135).
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1560
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fish, peces, pescado, Cloud Serpents, Serpientes de las Nubes, hunting, cazar
michin, fish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/michin
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library,
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&st=image
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