Ca Zan Polihuiz (MH627r)

Ca Zan Polihuiz (MH627r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ca Zan Polihuiz ("He'll Completely Perish") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. His face is painted black perhaps to indicate death is near, but his eye is still open. The tax payer's head is not painted this color, just the glyph above his head (as one can see in the contextualizing image). This name sounds prophetic.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Priests sometimes painted their faces black, such as a group of four priests attending a session where a war captive's heart was about to be extracted. See the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 8, Folio 34 verso, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/8/folio/34v/images/0. Tlaloc, Quetzalcoatl, and Ixtlilton all wore black paint, too. Also found in the DFC. (SW)

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

phrase or sentence

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Death, decay, decomposition

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

gray

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

muerte, muertos, perecer, ixtlilmaca, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ca zan (an intensifier), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ca-zan
pollihui, to perish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/polihui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Seguramente Perecerá

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 627r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=336st=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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: