Xochiteotl (Verg34r)

This compound Nahuatl hieroglyph is a black-line drawing of the personal name Xochiteotl (perhaps “Flower Divinity”), attested here as pertaining to a man. The compound consists of a flowering plant (xochitl) that has two stems, each with a flower at the end, and two leaves, one on the left and one on the right. Below this plant is a horizontal stone (tetl) with its curling ends and a curving stripe through its middle. Below the stone is a horizontal road (otli) in the form of parallel lines that contain two alternating footprints (movement). The stone and the road provide the two phonetic syllables (-te- + -o-) that combine to make teotl (a divine force). Another Xochiteotl from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco has just the flower and a stone, where the stone alone stood for -teotl. A Quick Search for Xochiteotl in this digital collection will bring up a number of compounds where a sun or a human head/face stands for the -teotl component in the name.