Motzincuepa (MH742r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Motzincuepa (perhaps “Your Buttocks Turns”), is attested here as a woman’s name. It shows a naked bottom that is slightly turned, resulting in a three-quarters perspective. There is some shading that adds a three-dimensionality. The typical tzintli (bottom) is a man’s, and therefore a loincloth belt is shown at the top, but not here, which may mean that the woman’s bottom is being shown. The possessive is not shown visually. The decipherment is uncertain, as this seems to be an unusual name.
Stephanie Wood
There is another glyph that might speak to a woman’s curvy bottom, Cihuaitzincocol (Verg14r), if the decipherment is correct.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
nalgas, torneadas, nombres de mujeres
mo- (possessive pronoun), your (singular), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mo
tzin(tli), buttocks, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzintli
cuepa, turns, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuepa
Tus Nalgas Torneadas
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 742r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=562&st=image
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