Tochin (FCbk8f9r)
This simplex glyph for the personal name Tochin (“Rabbit”) shows the head of a rabbit in profile, facing right. His visible eye is open, and his white teeth are protruding. mottled coat painted brown and white antlers. The contextualizing image shows this ruler has a colorful feather headdress, an animal hide cape tied at the neck, and a white loincloth waist band that can be seen on his back side. The companion text of the manuscript mentions that this man was a lord (tecuhtli). The bow and arrow he holds indicates that he was a Chichimeca. He also sits on a bundle of brown sticks (something like a tolicpalli or acacpalli) instead of a woven seat (icpalli).
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He was a lord (tecuhtli) and a Chichimeca, but it is not clear that he had the full title, “Chichimeca Tecuhtli” (“Lord of the Chichimecs”), which is a title that can be found across many manuscripts. The name Tochin was an alternative way of saying Tochtli. See, for example, the rendering of calendar year names in the Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España (1892), 102, where tochin appears where tochtli might be expected. This is reminiscent of tlacochtli and tlacochin, which are both found in this collection. The name Tochtli is a calendrical name that usually has a number with it, taken from the tonalpohualli, 260-day religious divinatory calendar.
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tochin tecutli
Tochin Tecuhtli
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1577
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conejos, nombres de hombres
toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
Chichimeca Tecuhtli, Lord of the Chichimecs, a title, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chichimeca-tecuhtli
Conejo
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Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 8: Kings and Lords", fol. 9r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/9r/images/5845917b-114... Accessed 26 July 2025.
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