Ecatl (MH771r)

Ecatl (MH771r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ecatl (“Air," "Breath," or the name "Ehecatl,” shared by the divine force or spirit of the wind). The name attested here is a man’s. It shows an anthropomorphic head facing toward the viewer's right. It wears a small, triangular hat, and the point at the top is a small circle. It also wears a buccal mask of the type the divine force of the wind (Ehecatl) wore and through which he blew wind. It somewhat resembles a duck beak.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

So many glyphs for the personal name Ecatl (air, breath) show this same lack of reduplication that is found in Ehecatl (wind). The buccal mask, however, certainly suggests a more effective blow than air or breath, and therefore seems to point to Ehecatl.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio hecantl.

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Ecatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

aires, aliento, viento, deidades, fuerzas divinas, máscaras, bocas, nombres de hombres

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

eca(tl), breath/air, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl
eheca(tl), divine force/deity, wind, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Ehecatl (fuerza divina del viento)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 771r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=616&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: 
intrusive "h" or "hu"
intrusive "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Ecatl (Mdz22r)

Ecatl (MH484v)

Ecatl Iztac (MH575r)