Pehual (MH730r)
This painting of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Pehual (perhaps “Conquered”), shows a frontal view of a hand possibly holding a black, vertical weapon. A white stick runs up through the middle of a black substance.
Stephanie Wood
The most common weapons in this digital collection are projectiles (such as arrows, spears, etc.) or the macuahuitl (macana in Spanish), which is a handheld club with embedded obsidian blades. The weapon featured in this glyph, here, seems closer to the weapons featured in the glyphs for Yaoquiz and Yaoquizqui (see below).
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
armas, negro, conquistar, conquista, nombres de hombres
pehual(li), something conquered or vanquished, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pehualli
posiblemente, Conquistado
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 730r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=538&st=image
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