Opochtli (MH545v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Opochtli (“Left [Handed],” attested here as a man’s name) actually (and probably inadvertently) shows a right hand. It is a frontal view, from below the wrist up to and including the finger tips. A left hand was probably intended, judging by the gloss.
Stephanie Wood
The divine force for war, Huitzilopochtli, has the two elements of "hummingbird" and "left" in his (famous) name, so this is not an unknown component for a name.
Stephanie Wood
dio opochtli
Diego Opochtli
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
hands, manos, izquierda, left
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opoch(tli), on the left, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/opochtli-0
Opochtli, The Left, a rain deity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/opochtli
La Izquierda
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 545v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=170&st=image
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