Tohueyo (TK205v)
This simplex Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the personal name and legendary figure called Tohueyo. The name is attested here as pertaining to a man. He is shown in profile facing left. He wears a feathered headdress tucked inside a red headband that is tied at the back. The feathers are short and gray (or perhaps a shade of blue or purple). He has a large round nose ornament, and face paint runs at an angle from above his nose down to his jaw bone below his ear. The design of the face paint is reminiscent of the Itzcoatl glyph and some designs drawn to represent tlacuilolli (below). His appearance suggests an “other.”
Stephanie Wood
The original Tohueyo was somewhat mythical or legendary as a Chichimec or Huasteco (two "others" in the perspective of the Nahuas of the central valley). Exotic and savage, he supposedly seduced the daughter of the Toltec ruler named Huemac, injecting Toltec society with chaos. But while Huemac sent Tohueyo off to war, hoping he would be killed, he apparently proved to be a valiant and successful warrior. Still, some people believed that the divine force Tezcatlipoca used the guise of Tohueyo to sow discord and distrust in Tollan (Tula). See: Alfonso Arellano, "Tula: Myth and History," Voices of Mexico (2008, 73–79).
Side Note: The folio numbers are not always clear in the copy published online by the British Museum. Marc Thouvenot gives this page the number K03_B in his TLACHIA digital collection, https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/tepetlaoztoc/K03_B.
Stephanie Wood
. tohueyo .
Tohueyo
Stephanie Wood
c. 1556
Jeff Haskett-Wood
ornamento, ornamentos, joya, joyas, nariz, tocado de plumas, tocados, penacho, penachos, color rojo, pintura facial, tatuaje, otros, extranjeros, forastero, forasteros, nombres de hombres, men’s names, fonetismo
tohueyo, outsider, foreigner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tohueyo
El Otro, o El Extranjero
Stephanie Wood
The Codex Kingsborough, also known as the Códice de Tepetlaoztoc, and the Memorial de los indios de Tepetlaoztoc, is not on display. It was transferred from the British Library and is now held by the British Museum. It is shared on line at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am2006-Drg-13964
©The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Please also cite the <em>Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphsem>, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, 2020-present) and this URL.
