Nahui Ehecatl (TR19v)

The iconographic example of an anthropomorphic figure representing the divine force or deity associated with the wind, Ehecatl, is shown here in a profile view, facing toward the viewer's right. One of his legs is bent, suggesting movement, perhaps dance. On his face is the diagnostic goggle eye and curving line around the mouth and up toward the eye. In front of his face is what Eloise Quiñones Keber (Codex Telleriano-Remensis, 1995, 165) says is the "distinguishing facial feature," the "projecting red mouth mask," which is "an instrument for blowing the wind." She also points to the distinguishing feature that is the "conical jaguar-skin hat." The figure also wears a round blue earplug with a red fringe and white shapes coming down from that. In his left hand he grasps a serpent that is blue on its back, yellow on its belly, and red in between. The serpent had yellow and red outlining on its mouth, visible white fangs, and a protruding flint knife in red and yellow. Colors and details abound, and the Quiñones Keber description is much more thorough, but several details appear to related to chalchihuitl (jade), and there is a small glyph for xihuitl on the headdress.