Quetzalpoyoma (MH876r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Quetzalpoyoma (literally, the “Quetzal Feather-Rose” or the “Quetzal Feather-Hallucinogenic Flower”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a round flower (the poyomatli or poyomahtli) and four vertical quetzal feathers coming upward from the top of the flower.
Stephanie Wood
One other example of a Quetzalpoyoma name glyph appears below. Beyond that, it is unclear whether the flowers called poyoma and poyon are just flowers or perhaps they have a hallucinogenic quality. The glyph for Poyon that appears on folio 679r might suggest a hallucinogenic vision, but this is just speculation.
Stephanie Wood
juo q~tzalpoyoma
Juan Quetzalpoyoma
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flores, plumas, alucinógenas, quetzales nombres de hombres

quetzalli, quetzal feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
poyoma(tl), a flower like the rose, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poyomatl
poyomah(tli), a narcotic, a hallucinogen, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poyomahtli
poyon, a narcotic, a hallucinogen, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poyon
Quetzal-Flor, o Quetzal-Flor Alucinógena
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 876r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=824&st=image.
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