Cuauhtzatzi (MH834r)

Cuauhtzatzi (MH834r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtzatzi ("Eagle Announcing") is attested here as a man's name. It depicts an eagle speaking in profile, facing to the reader's right. Its beak is open, and four volutes appear to fall from the beak. Two curl to the right at the ends, and two curl left. The volutes are just single lines, not double. The feathers that ring the eagle's head are spiky. Its visible eye is open.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

What appear to be speech scrolls can represent a considerable number of different Nahuatl words. One can find examples by clicking "scrolls" in the Cultural category or "volutes" in the Shapes category of the Advanced Search.

Berdan and Anawalt interpret the personal name Cuauhtlatoa to mean "Speaking Eagle," which fits what we see, as would "The Eagle Speaks" (a sentence). The definition of tlatoa/tlahtoa also includes the birdsongs, but knowing that cuauhtlatolo refers to military government, because eagles were an elite warrior group, perhaps this name--like that one--refers to the edicts or war cries of a ranking officer.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luis quauhtzatzi

Gloss Normalization:

Luis Cuauhtzatzi

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)

verb

visual plural (multiples of objects)

visual sound

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition, Languages

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

spiky

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

eagles, águilas, hablar, anunciar, volutas, nombres de hombres, tzatzi, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
tzatzi, to announce, call out, proclaim, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzatzi

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 834r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=742&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: