yollotetl (FCbk10f36r)

This compound glyph for a resolute personality trait (yollotetl) is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image and the keyword list in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a red, Western-style heart (yollotl) with a glyphic stone (tetl) above it. The context shows a cuauhcihuatl (literally, Eagle-Woman, but a better translation is mature woman) in the form of a woman standing, wearing a long, white, cotton tunic (huipilli) and skirt (cueitl) with shading given the clothing a three-dimensionality (through European artistic influence). The woman’s head has been replaced with the head of an eagle in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. The eagle’s features are spiky on the back of its head. Thus the eagle-woman is nearly a compound glyph, too.Gordon Whittaker has also deciphered this hieroglyph in his book, Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs (2021).