Atlixcatl (MH712v)

Atlixcatl (MH712v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Atlixcatl (“Person from Atlixco”), shows five vertical streams of turquoise-blue water, each one with a small circle at the lower tip with a dot inside the circle. Lines of current run through each of the five streams, showing movement. Above the water is a human eye (ixtli) in a frontal view. It is drawn in a European style. The -co (locative suffix) is not covered visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Glyphs for the name Atlix (or Altix) will have either a European-style eye or a starry/stellar eye, the latter being an earlier eye that could double as a star in the sky (for a starry eye, see MH733r).

According to Gordon Whittaker (Library of Congress, 4/18/2023), when the water is on the perimeter, such as it is here, the phonetic value is "al" and not "a." He suggests that the verb at play is altia, to wash or bathe something or someone--in this case, the eye.

Of course, looking into water is also a possibility here, and we learn from Alonso de Molina that one could foretell the future by looking into water (atl nicmana).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

visual movement

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

ojos, agua, nombres de hombres, etnicidad, pueblos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
-co (locative suffix), at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Atlixco)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 712v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=503&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

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