Quetzalcuauh (MH744v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Quetzalcuauh (“Quetzal Feather-Eagle”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows an eagle (cuauhtli) head in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Its eye is open, as is its beak. Its feathers are spiky along the top and back of its head, and at the neck. Behind the eagle’s head is a large quetzal feather (quetzalli), somewhat loosely veined and fluffy.
Stephanie Wood
The man bearing this name also had a baptismal first name, Hernando, a name likely perceived to be imbued with some power or status, given that it was the name of the leader of the invading expedition to Mexico in 1519, Hernando Cortés. Note, in the gloss, what a challenge it was to write Hernando.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
águilas, plumas, feathers, quetzales, nombres de hombres
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
quetzal(li), quetzal feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
Quetzal-Águila
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 744v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=567&st=image
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