Ce Coatl (MH519r)

Ce Coatl (MH519r)
Compound Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the combined notation and simplex glyph for the personal name Ce Coatl consists of two main elements. One is the number one (ce), which is expressed as a vertical line above the head of a semi-coiled serpent (coatl), shown in profile, looking to the viewer's right, with its bifurcated tongue protruding. Its body has spots, and its tails has rattles.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Ce Coatl is a divinatory calendrical day name and number, probably given to the baby boy when he was born and presaging certain characteristics expected of his life. Calendrics were an important element in the Nahuas' religious views of the cosmos. At the time of the census in which he appears now, he is a grown man, and he has been baptized with the Christian name Luis. The painters of other manuscripts, such as for the Codex Mendoza and the Codez Quetzalecatzin, have expressed the number one either as a small circle or a pair of concentric circles.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

luis çecohuatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Luis Ce-Coatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
personal name
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Numbers, Math
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Tongue Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
bifurcated
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

snakes, serpents, cohuatl, serpientes

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

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

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 519r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=117&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: 

coatl (MH484v)

coatl (MH485r)

Ce Calli (Mdz2r)

Ce Calli (CQ)

Ce Coatl (MH736r)

Ce Coatl (MH736r)