Cihuacuauh (MH750r)

Cihuacuauh (MH750r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cihuacuauh (perhaps "Female Eagle") is attested here as a man's name. The placement of this compound hieroglyph is right next to the face of the male tribute payer who has this name. the glyph consists of a woman's (cihuatl) head in profile, facing right. On or just above and behind her head is the head of an eagle (cuauhtli), also in profile and facing right. The placement of the eagle's head is reminiscent of the placement of some animal spirits in various glyphs for the term or name nahualli.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is a case of a man's name that contains a female dimension. This is a phenomenon that recurs in this personal name glyphs from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco. In this case, it may be that the nahualli is a female eagle, and the glyph if not suggesting anything feminine about the man who bears this name.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

galpal.cihuaquauh

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (female)

Gender (male)

Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

nombres de hombres, mujeres, águilas, tonales

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
nahual(li), personal animal spirit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Mujer-Águila

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 750r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=578&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).

Orthography:

"l" for r

Historical Contextualizing Image: