cuauhtli (TR16r)

This simplex glyph for eagle (cuauhtli) shows the bird in profile, facing toward the viewer's left. Its stance is something like that of a human dancer (given the positioning of the legs to convey movement) dressed as an eagle. The dance has a face with a gray band where his eyes would be. He wears a purple-brown, feathered, eagle skin that includes the head. The bird's beak is wide open, and the human head peeks out from inside the beak. A raised claw of the bird carries a white flag (labeled bādera). The other claw hangs down. The dancer has an additional headdress with white feathers, along with additional white feathers clustered as a second tail.S