Apazco

This detail features a glyph for the place name Apazco, which, according to the gloss, has associations with “earthen vessels.” The glyph shows brown water, probably meant to be muddy water. The word Apazco has elements of water, dirty, and -co, a locative. It would make sense that clay for pottery could come from such a site. This site has a numerical component (four dots). From the Codex Chimalpahin we also learn that Apazco was the site where the Aztecs drilled fire for the third time in the year 2 Reed (1195). They drilled fire every 52 years to recognize the completion of a calendrical cycle, something like our century. See: Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 192-193.SW)