Ecaxoc (MH698r)

Ecaxoc (MH698r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ecaxoc (perhaps “Wind Deity Beverage”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a figure wearing the mask of Ehecatl (often written in this manuscript as Ecatl, which means air or breath). The reduplicated name Ehecatl refers to the divine force of the wind. This head is shown in a profile view, facing toward the viewer’s right. On the top of the head of this figure are two triangular points. Unusually, he also has an eye and a nose showing. Below this head is a jug (xoctli).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The jug in this compound is rounded in its body, so perhaps the wind might have been perceived to swirl around inside it. The tlacuilo who painted the glyphs in this part of the manuscript had his own way of drawing or painting Ecatl (air, breath) or Ehecatl (wind); the figure is marked by these two triangular points on the top of its head. The other two examples of Ecatl on this same folio have a mesh pattern on these triangles, reminiscent of some of the diadems that elite men would wear.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

helnado hecaxoc

Gloss Normalization:

Hernando Ecaxoc

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:

deity name/theonym

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Beverages

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

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

aliento, aires, viento, deidades, fuerzas divinas, jarras, cerámicas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

eca(tl), air/breath, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl
eheca(tl)/Ehecatl, wind, or the spirit of the wind, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Deidad del Viento-Jarra

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 698r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=476&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:

"l" for r

dropped "h"

dropped "n"

intrusive "h" or "hu"

Historical Contextualizing Image: