Teuhcatl (MH560v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teuhcatl (the name of a divinity akin to Mixcoatl, Cloud Serpent”) is attested here as a man’s name, It shows four scrolls facing different directions. They are colored gray, and they must represent dust (teuhtli).
Stephanie Wood
In Sarah Cline's Book of Tributes (1993) from Morelos, this is a name taken by Nahua men. A blog post study of the 1544 Nahuatl census of Morelos by Magnus Pharao Hansen suggests a translation of "Dust Person" for the name Teuhcatl. The visual certainly would support this interpretation. And the -catl suggests "person" with a certain association or affiliation.
However, there is more to the name. The Handbook of Middle American Indians: Anthology of Northern Mesoamerica (1971, 426) states that this was one of several Chinampaneca deities. According to the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, Teuhcatl is a divinity akin to Mixcoatl. The Codex Chimalpopoca refers to the ixiptlatl of a deity, Teuhcatl, who was dressed like Mixcoatl, and the Mexica were fooled by it. This is quoted in Molly Bassett's, The Fate of Earthly Things (2015), 162. Given the association with the divinity Mixcoatl, and the image of swirling serpent-like clouds associated with the glyphs of that name, this name Teuhcatl seemingly has associations with beliefs relating to the importance of wind and swirling rain clouds.
Stephanie Wood
domingo teuhcatl
Domingo Teuhcatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
dust, polvo, curvado, volutas
Teuhcatl, a deity name and a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teuhcatl
teuh(tli), dust, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teuhtli
catl, affiliation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
Persona de Polvo
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 560v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=200&st=image
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