. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. 0. selek] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENTS III, IV 185 zaca-tl, grass , teo-tl, god , and the final syllable tla or tlan,which has the significance of a locative. Oceotl, jaguar , is a verycommon proper name. The last picture in the series is again a house with a stone roof;but the place hieroglyph, which must have been there originally, ismissing. A personage is drawn in front of the house, whose name isgiven above by the representation of a stone knife (tecpatl). Here,too, there is a note, but it is almost illegibl
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. 0. selek] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENTS III, IV 185 zaca-tl, grass , teo-tl, god , and the final syllable tla or tlan,which has the significance of a locative. Oceotl, jaguar , is a verycommon proper name. The last picture in the series is again a house with a stone roof;but the place hieroglyph, which must have been there originally, ismissing. A personage is drawn in front of the house, whose name isgiven above by the representation of a stone knife (tecpatl). Here,too, there is a note, but it is almost illegible. The place name, in particular, can not be deciphered. I read: Nica mazap lc yn toca . The notes, few words as they contain, are remarkable on account oftheir dialect form. In classic Aztec, nican means here ; tococol,our ancestor; ocelotl, the jaguar. The writer who added thenotes on our fragment III (plate viii) drops the final nasal after theshort a in nican, and writes nica and nicah. And thus yahuayohcaand zacateotlah probably stand for yauayocan and zacateotlan. Aft
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