Tlocalcatl (MH729r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Tlocalcatl (perhaps “Person of Tlocalco," or "Person of the Falcon-House”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows a spotted bird, perhaps a falcon-like raptor (tlotli) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Above the bird is a house (calli) in a frontal view. The building has an entrance framed by what are likely wooden beams. The -catl (affiliation suffix) is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
Bernal Díaz (A True History of the Conquest of New Spain, 1910, 19) suggested that Teocalcatl (a person associated with the temple) was the intention. If so, was the reference to a teocalli (pre-contact temple) being disguised with a reference to a bird?
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
rapaz, rapaces, pájaros, edificios, casas, guardianes, nombres de hombres, pueblos, etnicidades
tlo(tli), a falcon-like raptor bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlotli
cal(li), a house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-catl (affiliation suffix), person of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
(una persona asociada con la casa de los halcones)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 729r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=536&st=image
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