Xochipepena (MH837v)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochipepena (perhaps “He Chooses Flowers” or “He Harvests Flowers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a human (left) hand grasping two flowers. The flower on the right has three visible petals. The flower on the left seems like a group of six anthers with a three-part stem-base. The hand is semantic for “choosing” or “picking” (pepena), and the two different flowers (xochitl) not only support the Xochi- start to the name, but may also sustain the idea of choice, having chosen two that vary.