Tepantemoc (MH813r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tepantemoc (“He Descended Over Someone”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two naked men in profile view, one lying face down and the other sitting on his back, looking toward the viewer’s left. The seated man is bald, and the prone man has hair on his head.
Stephanie Wood
Nudity might be an expression of vulnerability. This has yet to be studied in full. This drawing could also have a sexual dimension, but it is not clear. A few of the rare glyphs or examples of iconography that relate to sexual practice appear below.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
desnudez, calvo, calvicie, adverbios, verbos, nombres de hombres
tepan, over someone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepan
temo, to go down, descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temo
Descendió Sobre Alguien
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 813r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=700&st=image.
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