Cozcacuauh (MH653r)

Cozcacuauh (MH653r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cozcacuauh ("King Vulture," attested here as a man's name) shows an eagle in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Its eye appears to be open. The necklace (cozcatl) on the eagle's neck is a phonetic indicator that this is not an eagle but a cozcacuauhtli, vulture.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is a day sign in the tonalpohualli, the 260-day divinatory calendar. Normally, the vulture would have a numerical companion from 1 to 13. Because of colonial edicts to stop using the tonalpohualli as a source for names, one thing that happened is that the companion numbers were dropped, perhaps as a stopgap measure to reduce the sacred nature of the name. See Norma Angélica Castilla Palma, "Las huellas del oficio y lo sagrado en los nombres nahuas de familias y barrios de Cholula," Dimensión Antropológica v. 65 (sept.-dic. 2015), 186.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p^o cozcaquauh

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Cozcacuauh

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:

calendrics

day name

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Feathers

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

buitres, águilas con collares, pájaros, plumas, calendarios, días, tonalpohualli, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cozcacuauh(tli), vulture, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcacuauhtli
cozca(tl), necklace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Buitre

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 653r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=388&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:

"q" for c

Historical Contextualizing Image: