Huitznahuacatl (MH651r)

Huitznahuacatl (MH651r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painting of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Huitznahuacatl ("Person from Huitznahuac") is attested here as a man's name. It shows two, triangular, pointed, striped, green and black spines or thorns (huitztli). These were likely used for blood letting. The two spines are near (-nahuac) each other.

Description, 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:

adverb

noun(s)

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Blood (human/animal/plant)

Gender (male)

Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Religion (Indigenous)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

War or Conflict

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

green (dark)

red

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

striped

triangular

Keywords:

espinas, sangre, ofrendas, autosacrificio, flebotomía, pueblos, etnicidades, nombres de hombres, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Huitznahuac, a place, a calpolli from Chicomoztoc, an ethnicity, warrior-dancers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitznahuac
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
huitz(tli), a thorn or spine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
-nahuac, next to, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuac

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(persona de Huitznahuac)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 651r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=384&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).

Orthography:

"z" for tz

Historical Contextualizing Image: