Cuauhtemoc (MH837r)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhtemoc (perhaps “He Has Descended Like an Eagle”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal or bird’s eye view of a rectangle with vertical hash marks and a white border. It looks like a cultivated field (perhaps a tlalli) or a piece of cloth (such as an ayatl or a tilmatli), since both can have white borders. In fact, this rectangle with hash marks looks much like the zacatilma (MH828r). But neither land or cloth would fit the semantic Cuauh- start to the name, unless the land has lots of trees on it. The -temoc (or temo, to descend, in the preterit, i.e., descended) is shown with alternating footprints, which show movement.