Ocelotepec (CQ)
This compound glyph for the place name Ocelotepec ("On Jaguar Hill") consists of a jaguar (ocelotl) head in profile looking toward the viewer's right. This jaguar head is on top of a hill or mountain (tepetl). The hill is greenish, and the jaguar is a light brown with black spots.
Stephanie Wood
This tepetl sign does not have the full bell shape. It does not have the horizontal line toward the bottom or the rocky outcroppings on the slopes. It is evolving toward a feature in a landscape painting; it is rather iconographic rather than glyphic, which is the case for several of the mountains that have glosses indicating (otherwise) that they are tepetl.
Stephanie Wood
oçelutltepec
Ocelotepec
Stephanie Wood
covers ruling men and women of Tecamachalco through 1593
place, lugar, name, nombre, jaguar
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ocelo(tl), jaguar, //nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocelotl
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, //nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec, on the hill or mountain, //nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec
P[ueblo] Ocelotl Tepec “On Jaguar Hill.” Matthew T. McDavitt, “Placenames in the Codex Quetzalecatzin,” unpublished essay shared 2-21-2018.
en el cerro del Jaguar
Ofelia Cruz Morales
The Codex Quetzalecatzin, aka Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec, Codex Ehecatepec-Huitziltepec, or Charles Ratton Codex. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017590521/
The Library of Congress, current custodian of this pictorial Mexican manuscript, hosts a digital version online. It is not copyright protected.
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/Ocelotepec_CQ_Context_0.png)