Huitzilihuitl (Azca16)

Huitzilihuitl (Azca16)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name Huitzilihuitl (glossed here in the reverential, Huitzilihuitzin), is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph includes the head of a hummingbird (huitzilin) and, around the head, feathers (ihuitl)) in the form of three white down balls. The hummingbird’s head is shown in profile, looking to the viewer's right. Its head is tan and its beak, which is tilted upward somewhat, is a yellow-gold.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Huitzilihuitl was apparently the second ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, spanning the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. This glyph for the famous Huitzilihuitl–here credited with the founding of Chapoltepec–is considerably like some of the other examples in this digital collection (see below), with a hummingbird head surrounded by round white feathers.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

guitzilihuitzin motlallico chapoltepec

Gloss Normalization:

Huitzilihuitzin omotlalico Chapoltepec

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Birds

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

tan

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

colibríes, pájaros, plumas, nombres de hombres famosos, nombres de gobernantes

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huitzil(in), hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilin
ihui(tl), feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Las Plumas del Colibrí

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=16&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Orthography:

"g" for h

"ll" for l

Historical Contextualizing Image: