Ecatl (FCbk8f6r)

Ecatl (FCbk8f6r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph, featuring the personal name Ecatl, shows a bird-like head in profile, facing upward. An open beak and an eye are visible. The related text states that the person with this name was a ruler of Tlatelolco. His baptismal name was Martín. The spelling “Ecatl” is often used in association with visuals that suggest Ehecatl, the name of the divine force of the wind.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This glyph for Ecatl echoes some of the ones in this collection that come from the Codex Mendoza and the Codex Quetzalecatzin (see below).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Don Martin ecatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Don Martín Ecatl

Source Manuscript: 
Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)
Date of Manuscript: 

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
deity name/theonym
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Politics, Power, Governance
Religion (Indigenous)
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
brown
gray
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

ehecatl, Ecatzin, Ehecatzin, nombres de deidades, gobernador, gobernante, tlatoani, tlahtoani, tlahtohqueh, tlatoque, nombres de gobernantes, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

eca(tl), breath, air, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl
eheca(tl), wind and the divine force of wind, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Aire, Aliento, Viento (nombre de una deidad)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 8: Kings and Lords", fol. 6r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/6r/images/855853ba-e43... Accessed 23 July 2025.

Image Source, Rights: 

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]). The Library of Congress has also published this manuscript, using the images of the World Digital Library copy. “The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Ecatl (Mdz12r)

Ecatl (Mdz22r)

Ecatl (CQ)