Citlalpopoca (MH827r)

Citlalpopoca (MH827r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Citlalpopoca (“Comet”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of an 8-point star (citlalin) with two concentric circles in the middle of the star. Curling off to the upper right of the star are three lines that curl at the ends. These represent the verb popoca (to emit smoke).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The shape of the star, with its points, suggests European stylistic influence. This person might have been named after the famous Citlalpopoca who was one of four rulers in Tlaxcallan.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā çitlalpopoca

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Citlalpopoca

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie 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)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

verb

visual movement

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Celestial Phenomena

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

cometas, estressas, humo, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

citlal(in), a star or a comet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/citlalin-2
popoca, it emits smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca
Citlalpopoca, Comet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/citlalpopoca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cometa

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 827r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=728&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:

"çi" for ci

Historical Contextualizing Image: