Chicome Mazatl (CQ)

This day sign comes from the tonalpohualli, the 260-day divinatory calendar. Calendrics figure importantly in Mesoamericans' religious views of the cosmos.

According to Sebastián van Doesburg (see our Bibliography), Seven Deer was married to Five Flower, and they governed for four years beginning in 1564. Seven dear was also called don Felipe Pascual, a name fitting a tlahtoani in the Spanish colonial period. In the text of this manuscript he is referred to as deceased, suggesting that the manuscript was made (or at least the short text was added) after 1568. Five Flower died in 1567, according to van Doesburg, taking it from the Anales de Tecamachalco.

The context image shows that this man has the title don, and he has the Christian given name Felipe, which shows that he has been baptized as a Christian. Fitting of the honorific title don, he sits on a jaguar-skin covered icpalli (an Indigenous throne). He also wears a cloak (tilmatli) tied over one shoulder, also fitting of an elite male. The deer in this name glyph can be compared favorably to the mazatl in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, and yet it is quite different from the deer in the Codex Mendoza (see below).