Chalchiuhtepehua (MH764r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chalchiuhtepehua (perhaps, “Possessor of Greenstone Mountain”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a hill or mountain (tepetl) of the variety seen in some representations, with what looks to be something like a cave that is the shape of a womb. [See, for example, the first destination after leaving Aztlan in the Codex Boturini.] The cave has shading that gives it a depth. Below and partially obscuring the base of the hill and cave is a single, oval-shaped, large jade or greenstone (chalchihuitl) bead on a twisted cord.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
jade, piedras verdes, cuentas, cuerdas, cordones, cerros, montañas, cuevas, nombres de hombres
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Chalchiuhtepehua, a minister involved in human sacrifice, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchiuhtepehua
chalchihui(tl), jade, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchihuitl
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-hua (singular possessive suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
posiblemente, Tiene la Montaña de Jade
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 764r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=606&st=image
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