Huitzilihuitl (TR30v)
This compound glyph for the personal name Huitzilihuitl includes what is apparently meant to be a hummingbird (huitzilin), despite its having a hooked beak. (Hummingbird glyphs show a long, pointed beak.) This bird is shown standing in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. The feathers (ihuitl) at the back of its head are spiky, and around the perimeter of its body are eight, small, white, round feathers, possibly down feathers. Its eye is yellow and round, as though open. The bird-like figure also has some extra turquoise-blue tail feathers The overall effect of the name is Hummingbird-Feathers.
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From the contextualizing image, we learn that this second ruler of Tenochtitlan is deceased, as he is bundled in white cloth and tied.
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Vitzilihuitl.
Huitzilihuitl
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ca. 1550–1563
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Huitzilihuitl, a personal name, hummingbird feather; held, for example, by a ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilihuitl
huitzil(in), hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilin
ihui(tl), feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl
Las Plumas del Colibrí
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Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 30 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f86.item.zoom
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