Tecuhmicqui (MH491v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecuhmicqui (here, attested as male) has two prominent elements. One is the diadem that represents the word for lord [tecuhtli. It is shown here in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The diadem has pattern of mesh-like intersecting lines across the main part, and it has a tie at the back. The other element, to the right of the diadem, is a human eye that is closed, representing a dead person (micqui). The closed eye has prominent lashes across the bottom of the eye, suggesting the eyelid is closed.
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The effect of this name might be Lord-Deceased. For other examples of diadems representing the word tecuhtli, see below. To compare the closed eye with an open one from this same codex, see also below.
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pernertino tecuhmiq~
Bernardino Tecuhmicqui
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1560
Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood
eyes, ojos, diadems, diademas, crowns, coronas
tecuhtli, a lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli.
El Señor Muerto
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 491r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=62&st=image.
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