Tlacateotl (MH721v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Tlacateotl (perhaps “Day-Divine”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a horizontal stone (tetl), which provides the phonetic start to the element teotl (divinity). The stone has a diagonal, dark stripe and curling ends. Surrounding the stone are rays of sunshine that radiate out in all directions. These may refer to tlaca or tlacah referring to daytime or midday.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
personas, humanos, divinidades, deidades, nombres de hombres
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tlaca(tl), a person or a lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl
teo(tl), divinity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teotl
posiblemente, Humano-Divinidad or Señor DIvino
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 721v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=521&st=image
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