Cuauhtzitzimitl (MH717r)
This compound glyph for the personal name, Cuauhtzitzimitl (a famous name, “Eagle-Supernatural of the Night Sky”), is attested here as a tribute payer’s name. It shows the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile, looking toward the viewer’s left. It also has squiggly lines outside its usual tufted feathers on its head. The squiggly lines seem to suggest the supernatural element (tzitzimitl). This eagle’s head also has an as yet unidentifiable eye attachment, perhaps something semantically related to the term tzitzimitl, or perhaps an error.
Stephanie Wood
Another glyph for the name Cuauhtzitzimitl appears below. See also how squiggly lines might play a similar role in representing tlamati (possibly, to know magic) as part of the Nentlamati name, which also appears below.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
cielo nocturno, sobrenaturales, águilas, pájaros, rapaz, rapaces, plumas, garabatas, líneas onduladas, nombres de hombres
Cuauhtzitzimitl, name of a famous ruler, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtzitzimitl
tzitzimi(tl), supernaturals of the night sky, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzitzimitl
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
tlamati, to know magic, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamati
Águila-Sobrenatural del Cielo Nocturno
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 717r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=512&st=image
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