Huehuetoca (Azca13)
This colorful painting of the compound glyph for the place name Huehuetoca shows a horizontal stone (tetl) with diagonal lines through the middle and curling ends. This stone could also be interpreted as a hill (tepetl) which has the red-and-yellow slit at the bottom, the potential site for spring water to emerge, which makes this into an atl (water)-tepetl (hill or mountain) or altepetl (socio-political unit). Sitting on top of this stone-hill-springwater sign is a standing drum, the huehuetl, which is the principal visual for the place name beginning Huehue-. The legs of the drum have a stepped shape and three swirls running horizontally across the top half of the drum. Stripes enclose the swirls above and below them. The drum is largely red, with a little bit of grey on the right side.
Stephanie Wood
Huehuetoca was a settlement apparently made during the migration that would eventually end up settling Mexico-Tenochtitlan. According to the migration account, the divine force Huitzilopochtlil was directing the migrating group. Today, Huehuetoca is in the State of Mexico. The drum is apparently a phonetic indicator for the term huehue, old. And the second part of the name, -toca, may be short for tocaitl (name). Together huehuetocaitl refers to the origin of a lineage, as translated by Alonso de Molina. See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary.
Stephanie Wood
Hueguetoca
Huehuetoca
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.
Jeff Haskett-Wood
piedras, cerros, montañas, tambores, pueblos, topónimos, nombres de lugares

huehuetoca(itl), origin of a lineage, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehuetocaitl
[Lugar del] Origen del Linaje
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=13&st=image
The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
