Maceuhqui (MH676v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Maceuhqui (“Dancer”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile view of the head of a man wearing a feathered headdress with three feathers bound at the bottom. Hanging from his lip or chin is another ornament of some type. He seems to be prepared for dancing (a dancer, maceuhqui) or else perhaps one who is deserving for serving the divine forces.
Stephanie Wood
Consider some glyphs below that refer to men with names Maceuh and Tlamaceuh. The former may be short for Maceuhqui, and he also has a feather on his head. The latter may represent someone who is deserving or offering something, with his hands gesturing. It could be useful to compare these glyphs with glyphs, below, that have macehualli at their root.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
plumas, tocados, danzas, bailadores, merecedores, nombres de hombres
maceuhqui, a dancer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maceuhqui
macehua, to merit, to be deserving, or to dance, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macehua
Bailador
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 676v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=433&st=image.
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