Tomiyauh (MH885v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tomiyauh (perhaps “Our Maize Tassel”) is attested here as a woman’s name. It is also the name of a divine force that is related to the Tlaloque (sacred forces of rain). The glyph shows a stem with about fourteen petals. It is upright, but it curves to the right.
Stephanie Wood
Women’s names are proportionally few in this collection. See other examples of Tomiyauh glyphs, below, which all refer to women.
Stephanie Wood
luysa tomiyauh
Luisa Tomiyauh
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
maíz, flores, nombres de fuerzas divinas, posesión, nombres de mujeres

Tomiyauhtecuhtli,sacred force; "Our Maize Tassel Lord,” https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tomiyauhtecuhtli
to-, our (possessive pronoun), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783
miyahua(tl), maize tassel-flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miyahuatl
Nuestro Señor La Borla de Maíz (nombre de mujer)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 885v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=843&st=image.
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