Cuauhtzitzimitl (MH717r)

Cuauhtzitzimitl (MH717r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name, Cuauhtzitzimitl (a famous name, “Eagle-Celestial Divine Force that Torments”), is attested here as a tribute payer’s name. It shows the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile, looking toward the viewer’s left. It also has squiggly lines outside its usual tufted feathers on its head. The squiggly lines seem to suggest the vitality of the sacred force (tzitzimitl). This eagle’s head also has an as yet unidentifiable eye attachment, perhaps something semantically related to the term tzitzimitl, or perhaps an error.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Another glyph for the name Cuauhtzitzimitl appears below. See also how squiggly lines might play a similar role in representing tlamati (possibly, to know sacred powers) as part of the Nentlamati name, which also appears below.

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:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

cielo nocturno, sobrenaturales, águilas, pájaros, rapaz, rapaces, plumas, garabatas, líneas onduladas, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Cuauhtzitzimitl, name of a famous ruler, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtzitzimitl
tzitzimi(tl), a divine or sacred force of the night sky that could torment people on earth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzitzimitl
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
tlamati, to know magic, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamati

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Águila-Sobrenatural del Cielo Nocturno

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 717r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=512&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

"th" for t, d, or gd

Historical Contextualizing Image: