Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina (FCbk8f1v)
This compound glyph for the personal name Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina (or "Huehue," the elder) shows a horizontal rectangle (with various details and in multiple colors) being pierced from below by an arrow. The rectangle has the iconography of a band of sky (ilhuicatl). To shoot an arrow (mina) is what the arrow piercing the sky implies. The resulting full name is "He Becomes Angry Like a Lord, He Shoots Arrows at the Sky." This elder Motecuhzoma was born at the end of the fourteenth century and ruled Tenochtitlan in the fifteenth.
The details of the multilayered sky band include, at the top level, a horizontal band of red, below that is a horizontal black band with four turquoise blue circles with black dots in the center The next level down is another red horizontal band, and below that a turquoise blue one. Finally, suspended from the bottom band are three circles of an orange color, each with a black dot in the center. Piercing the sky is a yellow reed arrow with two small orange stripes and one black-outlined red stripe. The arrow has fletching consisting of a gray and white down feather or down ball at the base of a longer, pointed feather that is turquoise blue with a red border.
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This glyph most closely resembles the one–also with a sky band–for the elder Motecuhzoma that can be found in the Codex Mendoza (7v), below. The Codex Telleriano-Remensis uses a colorful rounded diadem.
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Veue Motecuçoma
Huehue Motecuhzoma [a.k.a. Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina]
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1577
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rulers, gobernantes, arrows, flechas, sky, skies, cielos, star, stars, estrellas, feather, feathers, pluma, plumas, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres

Motecuhzoma, a ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/motecuhzoma
tecuh(tli), lord, high noble, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli
huehue, an elder, old man, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehue
Motecuhzoma el Viejo (nombre de un gobernante)
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Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 8: Kings and Lords", fol. 1r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/1v/images/0 Accessed 21 June 2025.
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