Huitzilopochtli (Azca11) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Huitzilopochtli (Azca11)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This pink, white, and yellow painting provides an iconographic example for the deity name Huitzilopochtli ("Hummingbird Left").

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, but content about the migration from Aztlan to about 1527

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

deity name/theonym

Syntax:

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Huitzilopochtli, deity name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilopochtli

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.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=11&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.

Historical Contextualizing Image: