Xochiteotl (MH829r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochiteotl (perhaps “Flower-Divinity”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a large red flower in a frontal view. It has three large petals. In front of the flower, tucked into the flower base above the stem and sole leaf is a nenetl figurine, also in a frontal view. The nenetl has the two diagnostic protrusions on the top of its head. Interestingly, nenetl does not contribute a phonetic element for the name here, which it normally does. But if it is a deity image, then it is surely serving as the semantic logogram for teotl (deity, divinity, or divine force). The third element of this three-part compound is a stone (tetl), and this does play a phonetic role as the start (te-) to the term teotl.