Epcoatl (MH483v)

Epcoatl (MH483v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the personal name Epcoatl shows a serpent (coatl) and a shell (eptli), with a visual ligature connecting them. The snake is horizontal, its body is wavy, and it is spotted. This one does not have a protruding tongue. The shell (eptli) looks something like the shells that appear below. It has a curl at the top and scalloped edged.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Epcoatl is another name for Tlaloc, the divine force of rain.

Added 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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Shells
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spotted or mottled
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
scalloped edges
wavy
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

snakes, serpents, víboras, serpientes, caracoles, divinidades, fuerzas divinas, lluvia, cohuatl

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

Epcoa(tl), another name for Tlaloc, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/epcoatl
ep(tli), a shell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/eptli
coa(tl), serpent/snake, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Caracol-Serpiente

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=46&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).

See Also: 

yecacozcayo (Mdz64r)

ilacatztli (MH485r)

Epcoatl (MH488v)