Tlaltetecuin (MH813v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlaltetecuin (the name of a divine force or deity, meaning perhaps “Earth Stomper") is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a bird’s eye view of a rectangular parcel of land (tlalli) cut in half on the diagonal, with the upper-left part black and the lower-right part white. Coming off the top of this rectangle, in a frontal view, appear to be flames, eight of them. Perhaps the flames are meant to provide a semantic meaning for the throbbing or burning (tetecuiliztli). If so, the flames are phonographic. But the sign for land is logographic.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
pounding, pummeling, golpear, tierras, terrenos, sementeras, lands, parcels, parcelas, tenencia de la tierra, nombres de hombres, nombres de deidades
tlal(li), land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
tetecuini, to pound, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetecuini
tetecuiliz(tli), a burning or throbbing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetecuiliztli
(un nombre de una deidad)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 813v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=701&st=image.
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