Chiconcuauh (MH690r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph plus notation for the personal name Chiconcuauh (“Seven Eagle” or “7-Eagle”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows the head of an eagle in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. Its eye and beak are open. Its feathers are spiky along the back of its head. To the right of the eagle’s head is a vertical row of seven (chicome) small circles. The root of chicome is chicon-, so this provides the start to the name. This name, which comes from the tonalpohualli (260-day divinatory calendar), merges the number with the day sign.
Stephanie Wood
Another example of this same name appears below. In lieu of including seven small circles for the notation (number 7), that one has a ceramic pot (comitl, the root of which is con-). That one might have intentionally avoided using a number, given that the clergy was trying to discourage the use of the calendar in naming practices. But in this example here, the number is clear, at least visually.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
números, siete, águilas, nombres de días, nombres de hombres
chicome, seven, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicome
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
Siete Águila, o 7-Águila
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 690r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=460&st=image.
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