Tetzauh (MH647v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tetzauh ("Omen," attested here as a man's name) shows a stone (tetl) and a spindle, a sign for tzahua, to spin. These are both phonetic indicators for the word for omen, tetzahuitl. The horizontal stone has one curly end (on the viewer's right) and some stripes in the middle. This iconography is fitting, except that the alternating light and dark stripes should be on an angle. Further, the details on the left end of the stone are more reminiscent of a couple of nenetl (deity image) glyphs that have feathers at the bottom--Nentequitl and Zanen (see below). This element may push the reading here more toward "omen." The spindle here is black and vertical.