Tlahuel (MH834r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlahuel (“Hello!” or "A Conjuring Expression") is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a man's face in profile, looking toward the viewer's left. The man's hair is somewhat unruly. Two parallel, curving lines come out of his mouth.
Stephanie Wood
The speech "scrolls" are not typical volutes for speech. Tlahuel has been translated as a greeting and a conjuring statement, so it could be the latter. The man's wild hair could suggest a supernatural power, too.
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juā tlavel
Juan Tlahuel
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
scrolls, volutas, palabras, hablar, conjurar, saludos, nombres de hombres
Tlahuel, a name, a greeting, or a conjuring expression, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuel-0
tlahuel(li), anger, rage, fury, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuelli
¡Hola!
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 834r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=742&st=image
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