Quetzalcoatl (MH643v)
This black-line drawing for the simplex glyph for the personal name Quetzalcoatl ("Feathered Serpent," a reference to a divine force or deity) is attested as a man's name here. The visual has yet to be deciphered, but it looks something like the bracketing, outwardly curving lines of a ball court as it appears in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco on folio 501 verso. But perhaps they are meant to be quetzal feathers. Between these parallel elements is something that looks like a vertical creature of some sort. Perhaps it is meant to be a serpent (coatl).
Stephanie Wood
gaspal guetzalguatl
Gaspar Quetzalcoatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
quetzales, águilas, pájaros, plumas, animales, canchas de pelotas
Quetzalcoatl, divine force/deity or the title of a high priest, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalcoatl
quetzal(li), quetzal feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
coa(tl), snake or serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
Quetzal-Águila
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 643v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=369&st=image
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