Temilo (MH486r)

Alfonso Lacadena (2018, 85) mentions the temimilli, a round stone column, as the root of the name Temilo, as shown in the example on folio 482 verso of the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, which has a three-part foundation and part of a column rising from it. This is, of course, a European introduction in Mesoamerica, and so he includes it in his study of loanwords that took the form of glyphs (or perhaps visual neologisms).

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 or the Tlatelolco after the Spanish seized power. [See Justyna Olko, Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World, 2014, p. 210.]