coatl (MH485v)

coatl (MH485v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for snake, serpent (coatl) has been carved from the compound personal name Ecacoacatl. The snake is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. It is horizontal, has spots, a visible eye, a rattler tail, and a protruding, bifurcated tongue.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Tongue Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bifurcated
horizontal
spotted or mottled
Keywords: 

snakes, serpents, víboras, serpientes, culebras, cohuatl

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

coatl, snake, serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl.

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 485v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&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).

See Also: 

Ecacoacatl (MH485v)