Mixcoatl (MH647r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Mixcoatl ("Cloud Serpent") refers to a man. It shows a serpent with a large head, in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. It is spotted, its stomach is scaly, and its protruding tongue is bifurcated. It has rattles at the end of its tail, on the left. A cluster of small clouds rest in the curve of its back.
Stephanie Wood
Cloud Serpent was a popular name for Nahua men, especially notable in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco. According to Sahagún, it was a divine force among the Chichimecs, and carried a powerful significance for the Nahuas. Some scholars have seen it as a divinity associated with hunting, others as part of a Tlaloc complex (of clouds, rain, lightning, etc.), and others as a symbol for a whirlwind (remolino in Spanish).
Stephanie Wood
juā mixcohuatl
Juan Mixcoatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
animales, serpientes, estrellas, nubes, religión indígena, nombres de hombres
Mixcoatl, cloud serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Mixcoatl
Serpiente de las Nubes
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 647r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=376&st=image
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