Mixteopohua (MH720v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Mixteopohua (perhaps “Your Pupil is Afflicted”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows an eye (ixtli) inside a stone (tetl)--apparently for pupil (ixteotl). Then there is another stone (tetl) below that, seemingly intending to combine with the speech scrolls (pohua) to produce teopohua (to be afflicted), given that the speech scrolls come down from the lower stone. The stones are horizontal and have classic curling ends. The eye might be considered logographic or semantic, but the first stone is definitely phonographic, in that it points to the pupil. This eye has a European style, not the early starry or stellar eye. The second stone and the speech scrolls are also phonographic, as they combine to create teopohua, which has nothing to do with stones or with relating stories. The possessive M- is not shown visually.