Cihuatlatol (MH745v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cihuatlatol (or Cihuatlahtol, perhaps “Woman’s Speech”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph builds on the head of the tribute payer himself, with two curling speech scrolls (here, tlatolli) coming out of his mouth. To the right of these scrolls is the head of a woman (cihuatl) in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. She wears her hair in the traditional style, called neaxtlahualli.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
palabras, hablar, volutas, mujeres, nombres de hombres
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cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
tlatol(li), word, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolli
Mujer-Palabras
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 745v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=569&st=image
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