Ce Toch (MH719r)

Ce Toch (MH719r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of a combined simplex glyph and notation for the personal name (and date) Cetoch (One Rabbit, 1-Rabbit) shows a rabbit (tochtli) head in profile facing the viewer's right. Its coat is textured. It has long ears that stand up. To the right of its head is a circle that is left unpainted (white or natural) that represents the number one (ce). This is a calendrical name from the religious divinatory, 260-day calendar, the tonalpohualli. The rabbit stands for the day name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

By the time of this manuscript, the clergy had been working to get the Nahuas to stop using the divinatory calendar. Sometimes the day names have been dropped, and sometimes the numbers have disappeared. But here, the person’s name retains both parts. The name merges the number and the day name from Ce Tochtli to Cetoch.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
numbers
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)
Numbers, Math
Religion (Indigenous)
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

conejos, nombres de días, números, uno, nombres de hombres

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

ce, one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ce
toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
Ce Tochtli, One Rabbit, a date, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ce-tochtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Uno-Conejo, o 1-Conejo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 719r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=516&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: 

Cetoch (MH506r)

Ce Tochtli (Mdz2r)

tonalpohualli (FCbk4f55r)