Ecaten (MH642r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or status, Ecaten ("Air Lip"), attested here as a man's name, shows an anthropomorphic head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The head has a thick, black, vertical line on its cheek, recalling the face paint or tattoo associated with images of Ehecatl, the divine force of the wind. The buccal mask (through which Ehecatl is perceived to blow wind) takes the place of the lips (tentli) on the face.
Stephanie Wood
Typical of representations of Ehecatl, this name also provice only Eca-, without the reduplication.
Stephanie Wood
ecatē
Ecaten
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
nombres de hombres
eca(tl), air, breath, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl
eheca(tl), wind, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehecatl
ten(tli), lip, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 642r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=366&st=image.
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