Tlahueliloc (MH815r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlahueliloc (“Wicked Person” or “Evil Spirit”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of what appears to be a wild animal in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Its mouth is open.
Stephanie Wood
See examples of Tlahuel, below, which may refer to conjuring. If so, they may tie in with the translation of tlahueliloc as “evil spirit.”
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
conjurar, espíritu maligno, persona malvada
tlahueliloc, a wicked person or an evil spirit, frightening, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahueliloc and https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahueliloc-0
tlahuel, a greeting or a conjuring expression, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuel
Persona Malvada, o Espíritu Maligno
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 815r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=704&st=image.
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