Ixtlamati (MH624r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ixtlamati ("A Wise Person") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph is a human eye (ixtli) drawn in a way fairly close to the pre-contact starry-eye style. It is a phonetic indicator that the name starts with Ix-, but it also ties in to the kind of knowledge the wise person has--gained from experiencing things with his own eyes.
Stephanie Wood
This glyph is nearly identical to one that is glossed Ixtlamati (see below). This underscores the relationship between the puzzling Tlamao/Tlamauh glyphs and the meaning of ixtlamati or tlamati, as opposed to tlamauhtli. Of course, the European assessment of trickery with tlamauh is not terribly far from the European association with tlamauhtli with crazed. In all cases, the reader must keep in mind filters and biases.
Stephanie Wood
agustin
yxtlamati
Agustín Ixtlamati
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
eyes, ojos, conocimiento, knowledge, visión, wisdom, sabiduría, Tlamao, tlamauh
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ixtlamati, a wise man, one who uses reason and has experience, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtlamati
tlamati, to know something, or to know magic/trickery, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamati
tlamauh, wise one, knowledgeable person, or possibly sorcerer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamauh
tlamauh(tli), crazed, berzerk, or infected, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamauhtli
ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
El Sabio
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 624r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=330st=image.
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