Monenequitl (MH673r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Monenequitl (perhaps the divine force “Tezcatlipoca” or else “That Which is Greatly Desired”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the bust of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. On his right is a profile view of a woman (upper body and head) facing the man. She raises a hand to him, perhaps in supplication. If monenequitl can be a verb turned into a noun by adding the absolutive -tl ending, then one of these people is desired or she is requesting something that she greatly desires or needs.
Stephanie Wood
This decipherment requires further work.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
querer, necesitar, suplicar, fuerzas divinas, religión indígena, nombres de deidates, nombres de hombres
nequi, want, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nequi
nenequi, desire, covet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nenequi
monenequi, that which is desired, coveted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/monenequi
posiblemente, Lo Deseado, o Necesitado, o la deidad Tezcatlipoca
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 673r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=426&st=image.
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