Itzcuin (MH634r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Itzcuin (shor for itzcuintli, “Dog,” attested here as a man’s name) shows the head of a dog in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Its eye is open, as is its mouth, and its tongue protrudes. Its teeth are visible. The dog's two ears stand up.
Stephanie Wood
Itzcuintli is a day sign in the 260-day divinatory calendar. Typically, such a day sign would combine with a number from 1 to 13. Here, the number was inadvertently dropped or perhaps suppressed, given that calendrics were a significant part of Nahuas' religious views of the cosmos.
Stephanie Wood
ytzcuin
Itzcuin
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
dogs, perros, calendarios, calendars, dates, fechas
itzcuin(tli), dog, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itzcuintli
el perro
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 634r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=350st=image.
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