Mazahua (MH651r)

Juan José Batalla Rosado (2018, 89–90) has suggested that a similar representation of the ethnicity called Mazahua, which looks like a full sun or star, is a phonetic reproduction of deer (mazatl) spines (ahuatl), without intending the corresponding meaning. Early on, the word for deer was applied to horses, which were a re-introduction from Europe. And the spiky partial shape here, as suggested by Batalla, points to the spur that horseback riders would wear on their boots. This same shape is echoed in a number of other glyphs in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, as Batalla demonstrates. I have also seen a similar shape used for the name Citlal, but that one is greatly removed from all the others, which represent the neologism tepozahuatl (metal spines) or tepozhuitztli (metal thorns).