Cuauhtliztac (MH495v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtliztac (“White Eagle,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) looking toward the viewer's right. It is a white (iztac) eagle. the feathers at the base of the neck are somewhat spiky, and there are gray lines of texturing above these spikes.
Stephanie Wood
Interestingly, the baptismal name of this man, Hernando, coincides with that of the leader of the Spanish invasion and seizure of power, Hernando Cortés, from several decades earlier.
herdo, guauhtliztac
Hernando Cuauhtliztac
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
águilas, blanco, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
iztac, white, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iztac
James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120) refers to this name, witnessed in a census from the Cuernavaca region (1535–45) as "poetic metaphor."
Águila Blanca
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&st=image
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