Cacalotl (MH827r)

Cacalotl (MH827r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cacalotl (“Raven”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile view of the head of a very black bird. Its eye and beak are open. It is facing the viewer’s right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The glyph for the personal name Cacalotl that appears in this same manuscript on folio 594r appears to have been drawn and painted by this same tlacuilo. Both of these differ from the one on folio 519v. According to birder Eugene Hunn, ravens are much more prominent in central Mexico than crows, even though cacalotl is most often translated into Spanish as cuervo, which can mean either crow or raven. See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā cacalotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Cacalotl

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

pájaros, cuervos, grajos, nombres de hombres

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

cacalo(tl), a raven or a crow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cacalotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cuervo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 827r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=728&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cacalotl (MH594r)

Cacalotl (MH519v)

cacalotl (Mdz33r)