Chiyauhcoatl (MH711r)

Chiyauhcoatl (MH711r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This colorful compound glyph for the personal name, Chiyauhcoatl (“Swamp Snake” or “Venomous Snake”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a circular body of water, which must represent the marsh or swamp (chiyahuitl). It is swirling with lines of current (movement), and it throws of two types of white turbinate shells with small yellow patches at their bases. Inside the water is a snake (coatl) with a single coil, a yellow and black spotted body, a bifurcated tongue, and a small rattler at the end of its tail.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

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Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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Keywords: 

serpientes, nombres de hombres, agua, cohuatl

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Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 711r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=500&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).

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