Temillo (MH652v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Temillo is attested here as a man's name. It is a horizontal object. The left half is a stone (tetl), which provides the phonetic start to the name, along with the semantic reference to the temillotl hairstyle which has a warrior's hair in a ponytail that stands straight up on top of the head like a stone pillar or column). The right half has yet to be identified, but it recalls a temictli (a silkworm cocoon).
Stephanie Wood
The name Temillo deserves further research. A folklore character named Temilo (an alternate spelling) was associated with Mount Tlaloc and was said--in a twenty-first-century ethnographic retelling--to represent the "devil" and have a role in the construction of the cathedral in Puebla. [See: Jay Sokolovsky, Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century, 2016, p. 151.] The appearance of what maybe a rattler from a rattlesnake or a couple of segments from a nahualli (see below) might be taken into consideration in probing the deeper meaning of this name, which can also refer to a warrior hairstyle.
A don Pedro Temilo (also called Temilotzin, in the reverential) was the first governor of Tlatelolco after the Spanish seized power. [See Justyna Olko, Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World, 1992, p. 210.] Miguel León-Portilla (Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World, 2000, ch. 9) relates that Temilotzin is especially known for trying to defend the Mexica capital against the Spanish invasion. He held the military rank of tlatecatl, and he fought alongside Cuauhtemoc.
Stephanie Wood
...es temilo
[Andr?]és Temillo
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
guerreros, pelo, cabello, piedras, nahuales, cascabeles, Temilo, nombres de hombres

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
temillo(tl), a column, a pillar, a warrior hairstyle, a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temillotl
temic(tli), a dream or a silkworm cocoon, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temictli
Peinado de Guerrero (?)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 652v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=387&st=image
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