Chimalman (MH652v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chimalman ("She is Like a Shield") is attested here as a woman's name. The glyph is a circular shield (chimalli) with fringe along the bottom half. The interior of the shield has four half-circles around the inside of the perimeter, and it has one small circle in the center. This forms a quincunx.
The jury is still out, but if the name ends in -man, this would render a translation of "She is Like a Shield." If the second part of her name is -ma, then some see a reference to the hand (maitl), and thus some translate her name as "Shield Bearer." But Chimalmama ("She Carries a Shield") also comes close to that translation, and the stem for mama (to carry) could be man-. Sometimes names are apocopated, dropping letters at the end.
Chimalman was the name of a famous deity-bearer--carrying Huitzilopochtli and/or his accoutrements) in the famous migration from Aztlan captured in the Tira de la Peregrinación. (See: Angela Herren Rajagopalan, Portraying the Aztec Past, 2018, 29.) For Alfredo López Austin (The Myth of Quetzalcoatl, 2015, 150), Chimalman was a progenitor/mother worthy of note, related to the concept of mother earth. In this case, from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, the name is being used by what may be a macehualli woman. She does not have a title by her name, such as the imported term, doña.
Stephanie Wood
magdalena chimalma
Magdalena Chimalman
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
escudos, rodelas, guerra, nombres de mujeres, mujeres famosas

Chimalman, a legendary woman who led the migration from Aztlan, a god-carrier, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalman
chimal(li), war shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
-man(i), to be in the manner of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mani-1
ma(itl), hand or arm, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
Al Estilo de una Rodela, o Portadora de un Escudo
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 652v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=387&st=image
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