Cuauhpiloltzin (MH686r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhpiloltzin (“Eagle Feather Pendant”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an eagle feather pendant (cuauhpilolli) that was usually tied onto someone. It comprises two eagle feathers that turn out to the left and right at the bottom. Above the pendant is quincunx shape that looks much like a chalchihuitl. How it enters into this person’s name is unclear.
Stephanie Wood
Note what appear to be similar pendants in various glyphs below. Typically, the pendants have down feathers at the top, covering the junction where the larger feathers come together. One pendant is worn on the head of an eagle. Perhaps some of these pendants are made with the feathers of the quecholli (perhaps a Roseate Swan), given that the device appears in place names that include a root of quechol-.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
águilas, quincunces, plumas, nombres de hombres
cuauhpilol(li), eagle feather pendant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhpilolli
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 686r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=452&st=image.
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