Totectin (MH705v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Totectin, “Followers of Totec” (a divine force). It is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. He has wild black hair and dark gray skin.
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This figure is probably Totec, the deity, although the visual differs from the Totec (MH507r) glyph, below. This visual does not capture the Flayed One (Xipe Totec). The two religious figures (Totec and XIpe Totec) seem to be two separate deities with different appearances, or perhaps Totec is a generic divine force, whereas Xipe Totec is a very specific one (also called Yopi, Yopitli, and associated with a temple called Yopico). See below.
In the plural, Totectin can also be spelled Tototectin. This is a plural for the followers, not a plural for the deity name. The plural of tecuhtli or teuhctli, according to Frances Karttunen, is teteuctin. See J. Richard Andrews (Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, 1975, p. 607) for the explanation of how the personal names Totec, Totectin, and Tototectin are formed.
Stephanie Wood
framco totecti
Francisco Totectin
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
fuerzas divinas, deidades, religión indígena, nombres de hombres
Totec, a personal name, referring to a devotee of the divine force Totec, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/totec
to- (first person plural possessive pronoun), our, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783
tecuh(tli), lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli
-tin (plural suffix added to nouns), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tin
Devotos o Seguidores de Totec (una fuerza divina)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 705v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=489&st=image.
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