Itzehecatl (MH666v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Itzehecatl (“Obsidian-Wind,”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows three obsidian blades (itztli) and three or more volutes that suggest wind (ehecatl).
Stephanie Wood
Typically, glyphs showing the divine force of the wind (Ehecatl) have glosses that do not recognize the reduplication of the first syllable, using ecatl or eca-, instead. Here, where the deity is not obvious in the iconography of the glyph, we do find the reduplication of the syllable.
Stephanie Wood
martin ytzeecatl
Martín Itzehecatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
obsidian, obsidiana, wind, viento, curving, espiral, cuchillos, aire, navajas
itz(tli), obsidian blade, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztli
ehecatl, wind, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehecatl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 666v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=413&st=image
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