Chiucnahui Ehecatl (FCbk4f7r)

Chiucnahui Ehecatl (FCbk4f7r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful simplex glyph plus notation for the name Chiucnauhehecatl (Chiucnahui Ehecatl or Chiucnahui Ecatl) shows the head of what could be a red-white-and-blue bird with an open beak, and nine yellow dots connected by underscoring seem to emerge from the mouth.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Gabrielle Vail and ‎Christine Hernández (Re-Creating Primordial Time, 2013, ) describe Ehecatl as the wind aspect of Quetzalcoatl, and they note that Ehecatl "wears a buccal (duck) mask through which to blow wind." That the "beak" may have been perceived as a blowing device is supported by the way the numbers seem to blow out of the beak. See also the glyph for Pitztli (below).

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

numbers

deity name/theonym

Syntax:

line connecting elements

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Mouth/Beak Open

Numbers, Math

Religion (Indigenous)

Teeth Protruding/Noticeable

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Tongue Protruding/Noticeable

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

tonalpohualli, días, fechas, calendarios, viento, fuerza divina del viento, deidades, religión indígena

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chiucnahui, nine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiucnahui
eheca(tl), wind and divine force of wind, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Nueve Viento, o 9-Viento

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_10615/?sp=15&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

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