anahuacatlalli (FCbk11f231r)

This iconographic example, featuring a scene in the coastal lands (anahuac), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a black-line drawing of a rectangle with a landscape and a person inside. The person is an unclothed man sitting on a box, apparently gathering fruits (perhaps cacao pods?) from one of the two trees bracketing the scene. The trees have visible roots. The text describes this land as one of “wealth, riches” (necuiltonoloya, netlamachtiloya) The man is near a large body of water, and the text suggests that this is near the sea (anahuac). The water is drawn in a hieroglyphic style, with lines of current and droplets (like beads) splashing up off of the water. Above the scene is a gray sky band running horizontally at the top, but in the middle of this the lower edge of a circle is just visible, too. This circle seems to represent the night sky (seemingly, ilhuicatl), as it is filled with stars (apparently, citlalin).