Coacuech (MH771r)

Coacuech (MH771r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Coacuech ("Snake's Rattle") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows the lower end of a snake (coatl), which is dotted, and then three connected rattles (coacuechtli). The rattles look like a string of small hearts.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

National Geographic notes that there are more than 24 species of rattlesnake. The rattler is found in many coatl glyphs. Sometimes it is highlighted by being painted with a color. For example, the glyph for Chontal Coatlan has a serpent with a turquoise-blue rattle. See below.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po govacuech

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Coacuech (or Cohuacuech)

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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Sensory Perception
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
dotted, granular, textured
horizontal
bird's eye view
segmented
Keywords: 

serpientes, cascabeles, nombres de hombres, sonido

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

coacuech(tli), a snake's rattle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coacuechtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cascabel de Serpiente

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 771r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=616&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: 
"g" for c, q, or x
"q" for c
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Coacuech (Verg6v)

Coacuech (Verg6v)

Coatl (MH638v)

Chontal Coatlan (Mdz8r)