Papalotl (MH631v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Papalotl ("Butterfly") is attested here as a man's name. The butterfly is shown with its wings open and its head up. This is a bird's eye or a frontal view.
Stephanie Wood
Butterflies are more typically shown in profile view.
Stephanie Wood
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papallotl
Alonso Papalotl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
butterflies, mariposas, insectos, nombres de hombres
papalo(tl), butterfly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/papalotl
Mariposa
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 631r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=345&st=image.
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