Cuauhquiyahuacatl (MH648r)
This painting of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhquiyahuacatl ("One from Cuauhquiyahuac" or a title relating to being distinguished in war) is attested here as a man's name or title. The compound includes an eagle's head, shown in profile and facing toward the viewer's right. The eagle's yellow beak is hooked and open. Its eye is open, too. Spiky black feathers protrude from the top, back, and lower side of this eagle's head, which is connected by a line to the T-shaped, beamy entrance or exit (quiyahuac) to a building. The beams are painted red, with the exception of the lower part of the vertical beam, which is painted black.
Stephanie Wood
One of the gates to the Templo Mayor was called Cuauhquiyahuac. This has been referred to as a patio, the Eagle Door, and the Eagle Gate by various scholars. It has also been referred to as a barrio of Tenochtitlan, which would mean that this glyph could be referring to a person from the barrio rather than giving his proper name.
Stephanie Wood
matheo quauhq~yavacatl
Mateo Cuauhiyahuacatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
águilas, entradas, vigas rojas, rojo, etnicidades, nombres de hombres
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Cuauhquiyahuac, Eagle Door neighborhood of Tenochtitlan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhquiyahuac
quiyahuac, entrance or outside, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuac
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
(una persona de Cuauhquiyahuac, probablemente un barrio de Tenochtitlan)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=378&st=image
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