Tlacahuepan (MH650r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or title, Tlacahuepan (a ritual title, the name of a divinity, and a name born by famous men), is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows what may be a horizontal, long, thin piece of wood huepantli. A rope or cord (probably a mecatl) connects to the end of the wood, probably so that it could be dragged--recalling the verbs huilana and huepana, to drag wood--and raising the possibility that this compound glyph is partly phonographic, not fully logographic, with huepana complementing huepantli. A face that appears at the right end of the wood provides the visual element for tlaca- (person, human).
Stephanie Wood
This tribute payer could have been named after a religious divinity, or one or another famous men of the early sixteenth century, or he held the ritual title, which referred to a young man who was immolated at the end of the festivals celebrated in the month of Toxcatl. Xavier Noguez translates the name to "Viga Humana" (Human Beam). [See Xavier Noguez, "Tlacahuepan," Arqueología Méxicana #176 (Sept. 2022).] Similarly, the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl gives "hombre madero" (wooden man), citing Durán 1579.
Stephanie Wood
peDro tlacahuepa
Pedro Tlacahuepan
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
madera, sogas, personas, nombres de hombres
Tlacahuepan, a ritual title, divine name, and a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Tlacahuepan
tlaca(tl), a person, a human being, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl
huepan(tli), a rough beam of wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huepantli
huepana, to drag wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huepana
(nombre o título religioso)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 650r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=382&st=image
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