Yeltzonquiauh (MH897r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yeltzonquiauh (or Eltzonquiauh) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows three elements: 1) at the top, the sign for heavy rain (quiahuitl), which has a triangular stream of water with two lines of current (movement) and a droplet/bead at the bottom of the stream; 2) then, coming downward, an amorphous internal organ, such as a liver (yelli or elli), with three vertical squiggly lines dividing it into sections and possibly referring to a person’s essence and being; and, finally, at the bottom, a considerable number of short straight line coming down from the organ and representing hair (tzontli).