Ecatl Icuapechco (Mdz12r)

The gloss gives "Ecatl," but the visuals suggest "Ehecatl." This is a recurring phenomenon across the glyphs from many manuscripts. Perhaps the reduplication was barely noticeable in spoken speech.

The wooden structure included in this glyph appears much like the tlapechtli that occurs elsewhere in the Codex Mendoza (see the example, below and to the right). The cuapechtli, possibly a head support, or cuauhpechtli, a wooden support, could be indicated, but these terms have yet to be attested elsewhere. The i- before cuapechco is a possessive prefix that gives the possession of the support structure to Ecatl (air, breath) or Ehecatl (wind, or divine force of the wind). In other words, it is a support (altar?) made for the purpose of displaying a representation of his head, apparently. Karttunen supports the reading\, and therefore gives "bed, sleeping platform" for the cuapechtli. She concurs that the locative suffix (-co) is not shown visually in this compound glyph.

To consider the possible visual representation of a possessive pronoun, the head of Ehecatl is slightly superimposed over the cuapechtli, which could support possession if we consider what Whittaker says about Cuauhtinchan.

Gabrielle Vail and ‎Christine Hernández (Re-Creating Primordial Time, 2013, ) describe Ehecatl as the wind aspect of Quetzalcoatl, and they note that Ehecatl "wears a buccal (duck) mask through which to blow wind." That the "beak" may have been perceived as a blowing device is supported by the glyph for Pitztli (below).