Cozcacuauh (MH733v)

Cozcacuauh (MH733v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Cozcacuauh (“Vulture”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows an eagle’s (cuauhtli) head in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. His eye and beak are open. His feathers are like spiky tufts over perimeter of much of his head. Coming from behind and hanging down below the head is a necklace (cozcatl, provided here as a phonetic indicator that makes this not an eagle but a vulture, cozcacuauhtli) with two hoops, a large one and a smaller one below that, and they are tied together.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is a day name in the 260-day religious divinatory calendar called the tonalpohualli. One might expect a companion number from the same calendar, but this name is just the day sign. 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:

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.

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

tied, bound, or bundled

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

buitres, nombres de días, nombres de hombres, calendarios, tonalpohualli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cozcacuauh(tli), vulture, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcacuauhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Buitre

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 733v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=545&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).

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