Quelo (MH897v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Quelo (perhaps “He Made Fun of Someone”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a man in profile, facing right. His visible arm is raised, elbow slightly bent, hand approaching the space in front of his face. The man’s visible leg has a very indistinct or mangled foot. He has some kind of waist band, not the usual white band of the loin cloth, but a black band. He wears nothing else, making him appear somewhat vulnerable.
Stephanie Wood
Some glyphs that contain naked or nearly nude bodies–something like this one–also have names that suggest something is outside the norm. Perhaps the glyph intends to show the kind of person that others might mock. The contextualizing image (with the footprints) tells the viewer that this man has run away.
Stephanie Wood
balthasal quellō
Baltazar Quelo
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
burlarse de alguien, desnudez, nombres de hombres
queloa, to make fun of someone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/queloa
posiblemente, Se Burló de Alguien
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 897v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=867&st=image.
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