Quetzalpopoca (MH542v)
This colorful compound glyph for the personal name Quetzalpopoca ("Smoking Quetzal Feathers") is attested here as a man's name. The reading starts with the three vertical, wavy quetzal feathers. They are painted green. Below the feathers are eight volutes or smoke {popocatl} scrolls. The volutes all curl downward, some to the right and some to the left. Three dabs of red paint suggest a fire from which the smoke curls away.
Stephanie Wood
fraco q~tzalpopoca
Francisco Quetzalpopoca
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
plumas, fuego, humo, nombres de hombres
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quetzal(li), quetzal feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
popoca, to emit smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 542v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=164&st=image
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