Tepeyollotl (TR8r)

Tepeyollotl (TR8r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example of one of the patron deities (or divine forces) with a significant role in the divinatory almanac reproduced in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis is Tepeyollotl ("Hill-Heart"), a divine force associated with the jaguar. He has green pleated fans with white trim at his neck and on his back and three bending quetzal feathers coming off the top of his head. His face has multiple colors, changing from gold to gray in a vertical division that runs through his left eye, and red paint around his mouth. His white teeth are visible.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Eloise Quioñones Keber (1995, 166) explains that the green color of the fans are there to associate him with the fertility of the earth rather than the water. The colors on his face associate him with the night deity Tezcatlipoca.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tepeyolotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Tepeyollotl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
deity name/theonym
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Feathers
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Paper
Religion (Indigenous)
Sexuality, Fertility
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black
blue (turquoise)
green (light)
purple
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bent
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

fertility, fertilidad, feathers, plumas, deidades, deities, divinidades, divinities, divine forces, fuerzas divinas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

Tepeyollotl, deity name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepeyollotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cerro-Corazón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 8 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f41.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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