Tecochehua (MH818r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tecochehua (perhaps “He Awakens People”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. He is wrapped in a blanket, and his eyes are closed. Another man’s head faces toward the sleeping person, and his arms and hands reach out to awaken the sleeper. The cloth around the sleeping person has some shading and three-dimensionality.
Stephanie Wood
The man with this name is a widower. Tears stream down his face.
Stephanie Wood
torio. tecocheūa
Toribio Tecochehua
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
sleep, wake up, dormir, levantarse, despertar, nombres de hombres
te- (nonspecific human object prefix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
cochi, to sleep, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cochi
ehua, to rise and depart, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehua
Despertador
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 818r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=710&st=image.
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