Mixcoatlailotlac (Mdz68r)
This compound glyph for a personal name and title combines Mixcoatl (Cloud Serpent) with the title Tlailotlac. The principal feature is reminiscent of a cuauhpilolli, and around that are footprints. The footprints are black, the eagle feather device is brown and tan with white down feathers. The footprints show a path (perhaps for a dancer?) around the cuauhpilolli.
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The footprints could stand for a verb, such as temo or pano (see below), or a locative (e.g. pan). Xo is another phonetic element that a foot will conjure up. But none of these interpretations seem to fit this visual. Any assessment about the presence of possible phonetic elements in this compound await further analysis.
Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tetepotztoca, totoco, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.
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c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest
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feet, pies, foot, huellas, footprints, feathered device, plumas, nubes, serpientes, oficios, gobierno indígena
Mixcoatl, a divine force, "Cloud Serpent," https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mixcoatl
mixcoacuauhtli, Ornate Hawk-Eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mixcoacuauhtli
Tlailotlac, a high magistrate, an ethnicity, or a name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlailotlac
Nubes-Serpiente (y un título, Tlailotlac)
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Codex Mendoza, folio 68 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., Image 146 of 188.
Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)
