tetzauhcihuatl (FCBk10F40r)
This is a multicolored painting of the compound glyph for the noun tetzauhcihuatl (perhaps "Someone's Spinning Woman" or "Omen Woman"). It shows a pair of lips (tentli), which may be included as a phonetic indicator for the start of the name, Te-. The next part part of the name is represented by a spindle, apparently referring semantically to a spinner (tetzauhqui). Finally, the head of a woman (cihuatl) appears to the left of the lips, completing the compound. If this is not meant as a spinning woman, then she is associated with omens (tezahuitl).
Stephanie Wood
1577
Jeff Haskett-Wood
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tetzauhcihua(tl), adulteress, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetzauhcihuatl
tzauhqui, weaver, spinner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzauhqui.
tetzahui(tl), omen, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetzahuitl
cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_10615?/sp=40&st=image
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