Cuauhtliztac (MH495v)

Cuauhtliztac (MH495v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtliztac (“White Eagle,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) looking toward the viewer's right. It is a white (iztac) eagle. the feathers at the base of the neck are somewhat spiky, and there are gray lines of texturing above these spikes.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Interestingly, the baptismal name of this man, Hernando, coincides with that of the leader of the Spanish invasion and seizure of power, Hernando Cortés, from several decades earlier.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

herdo, guauhtliztac

Gloss Normalization: 

Hernando Cuauhtliztac

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Color names
Feathers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
profile view
spiky
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

águilas, blanco, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas

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

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
iztac, white, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iztac

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120) refers to this name, witnessed in a census from the Cuernavaca region (1535–45) as "poetic metaphor."

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Águila Blanca

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&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
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cuauhtliztac (MH483r)