Ecatepec Iapan (CQ)

Ecatepec Iapan (CQ)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Ecatepec Iapan ("On the Water at Ehecatl Hill"?) shows a greenish-brown tepetl) on (-pan) a circular body of water (atl)] with turquoise blue paint and wavy lines in black. The viewer has a bird's eye view of the water, but the hill is shown in a frontal view.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

A great many glyphs in this collection start with Eca- when one might expect Eheca-. We are preserving the proclivity of the gloss for Eca-, while also pointing to the likelihood of an unintentional oral abbreviation of Eheca- to Eca-. The part of this place name that is either ecatl (air) or, more likely, ehecatl (wind, or the divine force associated with wind and a day sign in the calendar) is not shown visually. The second part of the place name has a possessor (I-), resulting perhaps in a translation of "on the water of Ecatepec." Ecatepec is known today as Xochitlan Todos Santos, as stated in the Codex Quetzalecatzin.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Quetzalecatzin, Codex (CQ)
Date of Manuscript: 

covers ruling men and women of Tecamachalco through 1593

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

southern Puebla state

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Religion (Indigenous)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood and Randall Rodríguez

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
green (light)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
circle, circular or rounded
bird's eye view
frontal view
wavy
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Other Cultural Influences: 
Mixtec
Keywords: 

places, lugares, water, agua

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

eca(tl), air, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl
eheca(tl), wind, wind deity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehecatl
tepe(tl), hill/mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec, on the hill/mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec
-pan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
i-, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

P[ueblo] Ecatl? iApa[n]? “The River of the Wind?” Matthew T. McDavitt, “Placenames in the Codex Quetzalecatzin,” unpublished essay shared 2-21-2018.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En el Agua de Ehecatepec

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Quetzalecatzin, aka Mapa de Ecatepec-Huitziltepec, Codex Ehecatepec-Huitziltepec, or Charles Ratton Codex. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017590521/

Image Source, Rights: 

The Library of Congress, current custodian of this pictorial Mexican manuscript, hosts a digital version online. It is not copyright protected.

Historical Contextualizing Image: