Cuatacihuatl (MH602r)

Cuatacihuatl (MH602r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuatacihuatl (perhaps "Matlatzinca Woman," attested here as a man’s name) shows the head (cua) of a woman (cihuatl) and, below that, a stone (tetl). Perhaps the stone provides a close phonetic value for the "ta" in the middle of the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Cuatacihuatl was the name of a famous warrior. See: Mariano de Veytia, Historia antigua de Méjico (1836) Vol. 3, 309. "Cuata" and "cuacuatas" were ethnic labels for Matlatzincas, and that may be relevant here, but it is unclear. See: Bernardino de Sahagún and ‎Juan Carlos Temprano, Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (1990), vol. 2, 762.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

mate^o quataci
vatl

Gloss Normalization:

Mateo Cuatacihuatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Foreigners/Others

Gender (female)

Gender (male)

Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

diagonal or angled

facing right

profile view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

multidirectional

Other Cultural Influences:

Matlatzinca

Keywords:

women, mujeres, etnicidades, Valle de Toluca, matlatzincas, toloque, cuacuatas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
Cuata, a name and an ethnicity (Matlatzinca), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuata
cua(itl), head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuaitl
cua, head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua-2

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(nombre de un guerrero prehispánico); Mujer Matlatzinca (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 602r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=283&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: