Cihuapocatl (MH672r)

Cihuapocatl (MH672r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cihuapocatl (“Woman-Smoke”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a woman in profile facing toward the viewer’s right. Two curls of smoke come up from the points of her hair on the top of her head. The smoke rather merges with the hair/

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Note how the smoke forms a pair of rising curls merged with hair, reinforcing the woman's hairstyle called the neaxtlahualli. Popoca, which in some other glyphs involves multiple curls of smoke, underlining the alphabetic reduplication with a visual one, if somewhat different from this representation of poctli. The translation of this name may well leave something to be desired. What is woman-smoke or female smoke? Is the name meant literally?

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

diego. çiuapocatl.

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Cihuapocatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-Wood

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)

Hair (human or animal)

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

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

humo, mujeres, pelo, cabello, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
poca(tl), smoke (rare form), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pocatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Humo de Mujer

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 672r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=424&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: