pipixahui (TR42v)

We are calling this iconographic example pipixahui ("snow falls"), drawing the verb from the Spanish-language gloss, "In this year, there were big snowfalls." The image is of six somewhat rounded, somewhat horizontal, gray-and-white clouds with a scalloped upper edge (see examples of mixtli, below). Coming down from the clouds--in a triangular pattern--are six short streams of water, each one painted turquoise blue, and at the end of each little stream is a round white circle with a black dot in the middle. This looks something like rain (see quiyahuitl, below), but if we can trust the Spanish gloss, it is snow. If not, then the verb would be to mist or to sprinkle, which are other translations for pipixahui. But the darkness of the clouds might support the reading of snow.