Chimalpopoca (FCbk8f1r)
This painted compound glyph for the personal name Chimalpopoca (literally, “Shield-Smoke”) refers to a ruler of Tenochtitlan in the fifteenth century. The shield (chimalli) is circular with a red border, a white center, two turquoise-blue squares and a turquoise and white triangle in the middle. Below the circle hang brown feathers, perhaps eagle feathers, although the lower tips are turquoise blue. At least five curls of brown smoke arise from the top of the shield. To smoke is popoca, the latter part of the name.
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In the other glyphs for Chimalpopoca, below, the shield designs are quite different.
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Chimalpopoca,
Chimalpopoca
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1577
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shields, escudos, rodelas, feathers, plumas, humo, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres

chimal(li), a shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
popoca, for something to smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca
literalmente, Escudo-Humea (nombre de un gobernante)
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Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 8: Kings and Lords", fol. 1r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/1r/images/0 Accessed 21 June 2025.
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