Temilo (MH513v)

Two other examples of glyphs for the name Temilo appear below. These are both stones with a protrusion that is reminiscent of the angle of the hairstyle, tzontli going off above the head. Those two examples of Temilo employ a stone as a phonetic complement. This one does not. Another Temilo from the MH shows the base of a column, pointing to the term temimilli (as suggested by Alfonso Lacadena, 2018, 85), meaning "round stone column." This is another, completely different approach to the name Temilo, removed considerably from the warrior hairstyle, but still within scribal discretionary leeway. This hairstyle, with the curving tzontli going off the top of the head, is somewhat reminiscent of the way corn silk bends over from the top of a cob of corn (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 or the Tlatelolco after the Spanish seized power. [See Justyna Olko, Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World, 2014, p. 210.]