Tlamauh (MH759r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlamauh (“Wise one” or "Knowledgeable One," attested here as a man's name) consists of a man in profile. He is looking toward the viewer's right. His hair is tied at the neck. He seems to have a small goatee/beard.
Stephanie Wood
Having long hair is not a common hairstyle for the average Nahua man of this period. So, this man stands out. Most glyphs for the name Tlamauh (also spelled Tlamao) simply show an eye (ixtli), apparently short for ixtlamati, which is another term for a wise person. The kind of knowledge and wisdom that comes through experience, witnessing and personally experiencing things in life, seems to make the "eye" relevant.
Stephanie Wood
peo. tlamao
Pedro Tlamauh (or Pedro Tlamao)
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
knowledge, wisdom, conocimiento, sabiduría, brujería, engaño, ne or nen syllable, nombres de hombres
tlamauh, wise one, knowledgeable person, or possibly sorcerer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamauh
tlamauh(tli), crazed, berzerk, or infected, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamauhtli
ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
ixtlamati, to be wise, prudent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtlamati
tlamati, to know something, to jest, or to practice "sorcery" (verb), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamati
tlamatini, a sage, wise person, scholar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamatini
tlama, someone knowledgeable, also a medico, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlama-0
El Sabio
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 759r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=596&st=image
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