Motelchihui (MH729r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Motelchihui (perhaps “He Belittles Himself”) is attested here as a man’s name. It is very similar to the name of don Andres Motelchiuh, a ruler of Tenochtitlan in the time of the early Spanish colonization of Mexico. The glyph here shows the head of a man in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. His hair is wild.
Stephanie Wood
This glyph is much like the one above it, which is for the name Cuapole, and it may well be that the tlacuilo made a mistake, and gave Motelcihui the same glyph.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
menospreciarse, pelo, cabello, cabeza, despeinado, desordenado, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/MotelchihuiMH729rSmplxPerNamMale.png?itok=Ld8AOQXX)
Motelchiuh, a ruler of Tenochtitlan in the sixteenth century, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/motelchiuh
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Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 729r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=536&st=image
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![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/MotelchihuiMH729rContext.png)