Cihuapanonoc (MH502r)
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 up, in a three-quarter view, heading in the direction of the viewer's right. Her hands and feet are not visible. The -pan- element of the name is not obvious, but it suggests a reading of "on." Alternatively, pano could read "to cross over." 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--in the neaxtlahualli style--that show she is an adult/married woman.
Stephanie Wood
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."
The contextualizing image shows how the tribute payer's face could be looking up the woman's skirt. There could be a sexual innuendo in this name. Further research is required.
Stephanie Wood
diego
çivapanonoc
Diego Cihuapanonoc
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
woman, women, mujer, mujeres, reclining, reclinada, acostada
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
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 502r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=83&st=image
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