See an image that represents chiyantli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
ca y çatepan in ihquac ye itech timomati in qualli yectli cenca timoyollaliz. yuhquinma milpan tlaxoxohuiaya tinemiz. tiquittaz. in xilotl in elotl. yn huauhtli yn chie. yn tiquaz. yn tiquiz. = For later, when you become a follower of what is good and righteous, you will be much comforted. You will live as if in a fresh, green field. You will find the green corn, the ripened ear of corn, the amaranth, the chia that you will eat, that you will drink. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
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. 2, 132–133.
in chientzotzolnamacac: chieme, chienmille, chientzotzole, tlamatiloani, tlaiectiani, nononqua quinamaca in chontalcaiotl, in oztoman uitz, in tlaluiccaiotl, in itziocaiotl = The wrinkled chía seller [is] an owner of chía, of chía fields, of wrinkled chía. [He is] one who rubs it between his hands, who cleans it. Separately he sells the Chontal variety, the [kind which] comes from Oztoman, the Tlaluica variety, the Itziocan variety. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 75.
In chiennamacac, qujnamaca in iztac chiẽ, in aiauhchien, in coçolli, in chiencoçolli
In tlaueliloc chiannamacac: qujnamaca in chian, qujmotlaltia, itlan caquja in polocatl, in chianpolocatl, in coçolli = The chía seller sells white chía, blighted chía, the shriveled seeds, the shriveled chía.
The bad chía seller sells chía, [but] he throws in, he introduces weed seeds, chaff, the shriveled seeds. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 67.
Salvia hispanica (lamiaceae).
Joseph P. Cahill, "Ethnobotany of Chia, Salvia hispanica L. (Lamiaceae)," Economic Botany 57:4 (Winter 2003), 604–618.
no yoan in chien, iztac chien, tliltic chien, chiantzotzol = also chia—white chia, and wrinkled chia (16th century, Mexico City)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2—The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 63.
chiencuicuiltic = chia-spotted, a description of the wings of quail.
Elena Mazzetto, "Quail in the Religious Life of the Ancient Nahuas," in Susan Milbrath and Elizabeth Baquedano, eds., Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023, 206.
"oil from chia . . . protects statues of the gods from damage caused by rain and bad weather, and is used as a flavoring." (central Mexico, 1571–1615)
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 76.
chieneculio coyouacan yn itequiuh centomi = The Coyoacan chia dealers' tax is 1 tomín (Coyoacan, mid-sixteenth century)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 25, 142–143.
no yoan in chien, iztac chien, tliltic chien, chiantzotzol = also chía -- white chía, black chía, and wrinkled chía (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 63.
in chia, in etl, in vauhtli, inic mitoa intonal in tlatoque = chia, beans, amaranth—were said to be the rightful due of the rulers (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 225.