Huitzilpopocatl (MH668v)

Huitzilpopocatl (MH668v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or possibly ethnic affiliation, Huitzilpopocatl (perhaps “Hummingbird-Smoke”), is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a long-beaked bird (apparently a hummingbird, huitzilin) in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. Its wings are raised slightly. At least five volutes rise around its feet, suggestive that it is smoking (popoca).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The absolutive (-tl) on the end of this name is not accounted for in the visuals. The -catl suffix could refer to affiliation with a place, but such a place has yet to be ascertained or located.Similar names in this collection include Huitzilpopoca and Huitzitl Popoca (see below).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

pointed (see also spiky)

volute(s)

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

colibríes, humo, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huitzil(in), hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilin
popoca, for something to smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca
Popocatl, a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popocatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Colibrí-Humo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 668v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=417&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: