Chicon (MH500r)

The name, "Seven," could be part of a calendrical name, where the day sign has dropped away. In the Matrícula de Huexotzinco there are other examples of counters such as these. The writers/painters of this manuscript also sometimes provide counters of ones that are dots and circles. See below for some examples. As calendrical names evolved, it was more common to see the number drop away and the day sign remain. Chicon may have started out as Chiconquiyauh, for example. Chicomacatl is a popular name that may have become shortened to Chicon. Macuil may be another name like Chicon. It may have started out as Macuilxochitl or Macuilquiyauh, etc., and then it became apocopated. Regardless of a possible error here, calendrics figure importantly in Nahuas' religious views of the cosmos.