Tezon (MH498r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tezon (here, attested as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a rock (tetl) with somewhat unusual markings that probably indicate a tezontli stone (which is a porous volcanic rock). The tetl glyph typically has curly ends such as these, but it also has diagonal, wavy, alternating lines across the main part of the rock. This stone has two somewhat long, diagonal lines, but also eight or more thin vertical lines in the lower right quarter.
Stephanie Wood
Why a Nahua man would have a name relating stones may have something to do with the significance of the metaphor, in tetl in cuahuitl (the stone, the wood), which the friars (such as Sahagún, Book 6) described as having an association with knowing secret things.
Stephanie Wood
nicolas
teçō
Nicolás Tezon
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
stones, rocks, volcanic, piedras volcánicas, nombres de hombres
tezon(tli), porous volcanic rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezontli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
Piedra Volcánica Porosa
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=75&st=image
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