Macuilatl (MH733v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph plus notation (functioning as a compound) for the personal name, Macuilatl (“Five Water” or “5-Water”) is attested here as a man’s name. It is a calendrical name from the religious divinatory 260-day calendar. The day sign is water (atl), which is shown as a swirling body of water than flows downward, with lines of current and droplets that look like beads at the bottom. The companion number is a five, which is drawn as five short vertical lines above the swirling water.
Stephanie Wood
The number five has twenty day signs with which it can combine. A couple of other examples appear below. Sometimes, by the time of this manuscript (1560), the day names have dropped away (or possibly been suppressed, due to the clergy’s discouragement of the use of the ancient calendar), and the name is simply the number five, by itself.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
números, cinco, agua, fechas, calendarios, tonalpohualli, nombres de días, nombres de hombres
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macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
Cinco Agua, o 5-Agua
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 733v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=545&st=image
This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).
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