Huitzcolotepec (CQ)
This compound glyph for the place name Huitzcolotepec ("On Spiny Hill"), features two main elements. One is a plant that apparently characterized by its spines (huitzcolotl). Behind that is a hill or mountain (tepetl). The locative -c is not shown visually, but it is incorporated with -tepec-, which provides a location, "on the hill" or "on the mountain." The hill has a bell shape, but is devoid of many of the earlier details of the tepetl glyph (as seen, below, in an example from the Codex Mendoza). The spiny plant has three main stems, covered with thorns, and it is painted a dark green. The hill or mountain behind it is a more mottled, green-brown.
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This spiny plant is something of a compound itself. The Huitz- apparently refers to the thorn (huitztli). The -colo- may point to a scorpion, which is a stinging arachnid. The tepetl glyph is somewhat simplified, possibly evolving away from hieroglyphic writing and toward landscape painting.
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Vitzcolo
tepec
Huitzcolotepec
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covers ruling men and women of Tecamachalco through 1593
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plants, plantas, espinas, hills, mountains, cerros, montañas
huitzcolo(tl), spine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzcolotl
huitz(lti), thorn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
colo(tl), scorpion, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colotl
tepe(tl), hill/mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-c (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/c
huit(tli), thorn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
P[ueblo] Huitzcolotepec “On the Hill of the Thorny Plants.” Matthew T. McDavitt, “Placenames in the Codex Quetzalecatzin,” unpublished essay shared 2-21-2018.
En el Cerro de Espinas
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The Codex Quetzalecatzin, aka Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec, Codex Ehecatepec-Huitziltepec, or Charles Ratton Codex. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017590521/
The Library of Congress, current custodian of this pictorial Mexican manuscript, hosts a digital version online. It is not copyright protected.