Citlalihuitl (MH717r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Citlalihuitl (perhaps, “Star-Feathers”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a star with seven points and two concentric circles in the middle. The innermost circle also has dots or short lines inside. Two feathers appear agave the star, almost overlapping with the highest point. Each feather has downy barbs and a visible calamus.
Stephanie Wood
This star shows European influence, given that stars were drawn as white dots or as red, white, and black eyes on a dark or turquoise blue background in the original Nahua style.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
citlal(in), star, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/citlalin-2
ihui(tl), feather and a person’s name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl
posiblemente, Estrella-Plumas
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 717r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=512&st=image
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