Omacatl (MH658r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Omacatl (or "Ome Acatl," Two Reed or 2-Reed) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two vertical, segmented reeds. Their curling roots are visible. And each reed has one small leaf curving upward. This is a calendrical name from the tonalpohualli, the religious divinatory calendar. Many children's names came from this calendar, and the parents believed that the fate of the child was influenced by the day upon which they were born.
Stepahnie Wood
The use of two reeds/canes and two curly roots can account for the number two in the name. Once upon a time there might have been two small circles to provide the numerical companion to the day sign, acatl.
andres omacatl
Andrés Omacatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
dioses, calendarios, días, años, plantas, cañas, fiestas, raices rizadas sobre el suelo, ome acatl, nombres de hombres
ome, two, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ome
aca(tl), reed or cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
Omacatl, divine force of feasting and revelry, or Tezcatlipoca, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/omacatl
Dos Caña, o 2-Caña
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 658r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=396.
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