Ayahualo (MH782v)

Ayahualo (MH782v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ayahualo (perhaps “Circular Deep Pool”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a round, swirling body of water that contains a thick black line that curls and a thinner wavy line that suggests current or movement in the water.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Water signs often include a swirling element. There was something notable in Nahua culture about whirlpools and things that curled or swirled. But swirling could be rectangular, as in the example of Apan. Note, too, the visual overlap between the sign for omen (tetzahuitl) and ayahualo.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

seu^astia . ayahualo

Gloss Normalization:

Sebastián Ayahualo

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

visual movement

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Keywords:

agua, remolinos, profundidad, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ayahual(li), a deep pool, lagoon, or well, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayahualli
ayahualol(li), a circular body of water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayahualolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Agua Redondo y Profundo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 782v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=639&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).

Orthography:

errors and revisions

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: