Icahuac (MH496r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Icahuac shows a set of teeth in profile (perhaps from a dog, a coyote, or a wolf, given the long snout), facing toward the viewer's left. Emerging from the teeth are curling scrolls. The verb icahuaca, from which this name might derive, means to murmur or make discordant sounds.
Stephanie Wood
One wonders whether the reference is to the growling or snarling of a canine. The very visible teeth might point to a an animal that is baring its teeth in an angry or threatening way. Rituals celebrating the force called the Coyotlinahuatl included regalia with "tails, sharp snouts, and erect ears." [See: Dan Flores, Coyote America (2016, 10).] Note the differences between this glyph and others that portray human speech or bird song.
Stephanie Wood
andres
hicahuac
Andrés Icahuac
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
animals, animales, sonidos visuales, teeth, dientes, volutas, scrolls
icahuaca, to murmur, make discordant sounds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icahuaca
Él Que Gruñe(?)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 496r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=71&st=image
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