Temilo (MH699v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Te (perhaps “Warrior Hairstyle”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a vertical stone with its typical curling ends and diagonal dark and light contrasting lines in the middle. Coming up from behind the stone is a two tone (gray and white) volute or curving object, something like the object held in the hand of Quetzalcoatl but minus the small circles or dots. (See the Digital Florentine Codex< /a> for examples.)
Stephanie Wood
Temilo glyphs deserve further research. Many have a stone (tetl), which provides the phonetic Te- start to the name, and some have a warrior’s hairstyle featured (temilotli). Some have elements yet to be deciphered, such as this one.
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
diegō temilon
Diego Temilo
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
peinados, guerreros, nombres de hombres
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
temilo(tli), a warrior hairstyle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temilotli
posiblemente, Peinado de Guerrero
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 699v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=479&st=image.
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