Xochiteotl (MH486r)
This compound glyph for the personal name Xochiteotl (perhaps "Flower Divinity") is attested here as a man's name. It includes two elements. One is a flower (xochitl), upright, with three or four petals. The other is a stone (tetl), horizontal, with curving stripes and curlicues at both ends. The stone is a phonetic indicator for teotl.
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The stone (tetl) here seems to provide the phonetic start of the word teotl (divine force or deity). It is unclear why the artist did not attempt a visual of the word teotl, when such a glyph may have been known to him. Perhaps the tetl was quicker and easier.
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merchiol xochiteotl
Melchor Xochiteotl
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1560
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flowers, flores, stones, piedras, deidades, deities, divinidades, divinities, nombres de hombres
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
teo(tl), divine force or deity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teotl
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
"Flower-Deity" or "Sacred Flower" [H.B. Nicholson, in Mesoamerican Writing Systems, ed. Elizabeth P. Benson (1973), 28.]
La fuerza divina de la flor (?)
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 486r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=51&st=image
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