Coacuech (MH674r)

Coacuech (MH674r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Coacuech (“Snake’s Rattle”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a snake or serpent (coatl) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Its bifurcated tongue is protruding. Below this serpent head is a series of four pieces of a rattler’s tail (coacuechtli). They are somewhat darker than usual, separated with spaces in between, and connected with a thin line.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See other examples of rattlesnake tails below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Tongue Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
shading and parallel line hatching
segmented
bifurcated
profile view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

cascabeles, serpientes, víboras, nombres de hombres

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

coa(tl), a snake or serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
coacuech(tli), a snake’s rattle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coacuechtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cascabeles de Serpiente

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 674r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=428&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: 
intrusive "u"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Coacuech (Verg6v)

Coacuech (Verg6v)

Coacuech (MH607v)

Coacuech (MH771r)