Temilo (MH482v)

The term temimilolli involves a reduplication that is not obvious either in the name or in the drawing. The more conventional glyph for the name Temilo features the warrior hairstyle that involves a ponytail on the top of the head, tipping over. Sometimes a stone (tetl) is added as a phonetic complement to the start of the name Te-.

Juan José Batalla Rosado (2018, 85) shows how these round stone columns represent a kind of visual loanword, considering how they were introduced as a result of colonization and new architectural methods. The column was versatile. It appears in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco three times as an example of the name Tetlacuilol and another time as the name Tepiyaz (see below).

The name Temilo deserves further research. A folklore character named Temilo 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.]

A don Pedro Temilo was the first governor of Tlatelolco after the Spanish seized power. [See Justyna Olko, Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World, 2014, p. 210.]