Ezquiyauh (MH537v)

Ezquiyauh (MH537v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing--with added red coloring--of the compound glyph for the personal name Ezquiyauh (“It Has Rained Blood,” attested here as a man’s name) shows three streams of water joined at the top by something like a cap. Each stream has lines of current (showing movement) and droplets at their tips. The red color is added between and below the streams of water.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

There is more than one attestation of this name in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, and so it might not be as unusual as it seems. Also, with depictions of blood letting, such as the iconographic example we have of tlacoquixtia from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, the drops of blood resemble this rain. Furthermore, rain is a day sign in the divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli, attesting to its religious significance.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

protos.ezquiyauh

Gloss Normalization:

Protos Ezquiyauh (is this really Piloto? or Brutus? or perhaps the Greek name for "First"?)

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Blood (human/animal/plant)

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Water

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

tripartite

triangular

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

upward

Keywords:

bloody, sangre, ensangrentado, lluvia

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ez(tli), blood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/eztli
quiyahui, to rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahui
quiyahui(tl), rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

La Lluvia Ensangrentada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 537v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=154&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: