Xihuitl Temoc (MH686r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xihuitl Temoc (perhaps “Year Descending,” attested here as a man’s name) shows two descending footprints (for the verb, temoc). Below the footprints appears to be a group of leaves that are possibly tied at the top with a bow. Xihuitl translations include a wide range of possibilities. For example, it can refer to a year, a comet, some turquoise, or a green leaf.
Stephanie Wood
The look of this is similar to the glyphs for Tlepapalotl, but a connection remains somewhat elusive. The diving of a butterfly into a fire that is part of the Tlepapalotl story could have an echo in the descent involved in the footprints in this glyph.
Stephanie Wood
ficete xivitltemoc
Vicente Xihuitltemoc
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
años, calendarios, hojas verdes, turquesas, cometas, bajar, nombres de hombres

xihui(tl), year or comet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl
xihui(tl), leaf, turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
Año Descendiente
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 686r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=452&st=image.
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