yancuic tletl (FCbk7f20r)

his iconographic example features buildings where torches were taken to share the “new fire” (yancuic tletl) that came at the end of a fifty-two year cycle in the calendar. This scene is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the companion text to the Digital Florentine Codex. This example shows two buildings. One is a temple (called a teocalli in the DFC keyword list), presented in a frontal view, with a narrowing stairway (called a temamatlatl in the DFC keyword list) that leads up to a small building on top of the pyramid. The six steps alternate between brown and white, while all have shading, which was an innovation based on European artistic influences. The entryway (called a calacohuayan in the DFC keyword list) is open and lined with wooden beams painted red. The lintel (called a tlaixcuaitl in the DFC keyword list) is horizontal and overlaps with the two short, upright beams that rest on a white and brown foundation. Inside the entryway is a torch (probably ocotl) with flames fanning out from it, looking something like a flower. The roof has a trapezoidal shape. Five curling orange and yellow flames appear to come out from the right side of the temple. To the right of the temple is a more standard house (probably a calli, given that the companion text refers to “in calpan” in the neighborhoods). This smaller building is shown in profile, facing left. It has two brown steps as a foundation, and it has a T-shaped set of red beams at its entryway. The building is white with shading. Five fingers of yellow and orange flames emerge from the entrance to the calli, reaching out toward the flames that come from the temple.