Cihuapanonoc (MH500v)

Cihuapanonoc (MH500v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cihuapanonoc ("On the Horizontal Woman," attested here as a man’s name) shows a horizontal (onoc) woman (cihuatl), face down, in profile, heading in the direction of the viewer's left. The -pan- element of the name is not obvious, but it suggests a reading of "on." Alternatively, pano could read "to cross ver." Thus, perhaps she is on the ground, perhaps she is serving as a metaphorical bridge for others to cross over.

The woman wears the standard dress for an Indigenous woman of a sedentary society, with her huipilli (blouse) and cueitl (skirt). Her hair is twisted up with the points above that show she is an adult/married woman.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

An alternative translation for this name, in Spanish, is: "estar acostado ó tirado á la manera de las mujeres; caido, tirado á la larga mujerilmente." This comes from Manuel Orozco y Berra (1880). A translation would be "to be lying down or thrown down in the way of women; fallen, thrown full out in a womanly manner."

There could be a sexual innuendo in this name, but further research is required.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

aluso
çiuapanonoc

Gloss Normalization: 

Alonso Cihuapanonoc

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
adverb
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Body postures
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Sexuality, Fertility
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
horizontal
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

woman, women, mujer, mujeres, reclining, reclinada, acostada

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

cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
pano, to cross over, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pano
onoc, horizontal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/onoc

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 500v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=80&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: 
"u" for hu
"u" for o
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cihuapanonoc (MH502r)