Tlaltetecuin (MH813v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlaltetecuin (the name of a divine force or deity, meaning perhaps “Earth Stomper") is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a bird’s eye view of a rectangular parcel of land (tlalli) cut in half on the diagonal, with the upper-left part black and the lower-right part white. Coming off the top of this rectangle, in a frontal view, appear to be flames, eight of them. Perhaps the flames are meant to provide a semantic meaning for the throbbing or burning (tetecuiliztli). If so, the flames are phonographic. But the sign for land is logographic.