Ce Coatl (CQ)

Ce Coatl (CQ)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This combined simplex glyph-notation is a personal name and a date, Ce Coatl or 1-Coatl (One Serpent or 1-Serpent). In context, it appears next to a seated man wearing a cape tied at the shoulder. The snake/serpent, shown in profile and facing toward the viewer's left, has a kink or curve in its body. An eye is visible, along with a rattler tail and a protruding, bifurcated tongue. The snake is painted gray or purple. The notation for "one" is one small circle. It is not painted inside, just left natural.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Ce Coatl refers to a day in the tonalpohuallli, 260-day divinatory calendar, and calendrics played an important role in Mixtecs' religious views of the cosmos. It is not unusual for people (in this case a male) to take a calendrical name. This "Coatl" may be the person who had rights to the milpa mentioned elsewhere on this manuscript. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Quetzalecatzin, Codex (CQ)
Date of Manuscript: 

covers ruling men and women of Tecamachalco through 1593

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

southern Puebla state

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
numbers
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Tongue Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Randall Rodríguez

Colors: 
gray
purple
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
bifurcated
profile view
facing left
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Other Cultural Influences: 
Mixtec
Keywords: 

one, uno, snakes, serpents, serpientes, víboras, dates, fetchas, names, nombres, numbers, números, cohuatl

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

ce, one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ce
coa(tl), serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Uno Serpiente, 1-Serpiente

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Quetzalecatzin, aka Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec, Codex Ehecatepec-Huitziltepec, or Charles Ratton Codex. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017590521/

Image Source, Rights: 

The Library of Congress, current custodian of this pictorial Mexican manuscript, hosts a digital version online. It is not copyright protected.

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

coatl (CQ)

Coatl Imilpa (CQ)

ce (CQ)

Ce Coatl (MH736r)

Ce Coatl (MH736r)