Huitznahuacatl (MH725r)

Huitznahuacatl (MH725r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Huitznahuacatl (“Person from Huitznahuac”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows two vertical thorns or spines (huitztli) with the point going upward. A horizontal stripe appears across each thorn.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

These thorns had a ritual use for blood letting. They are meant here to recall the place, Huitznahuac, where the person in question apparently had an affiliation.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

diego viznavacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Huitznahuacatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Religion (Indigenous)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

striped

vertical, upright

Keywords:

espinas, puntas, rituales, flebotomía, pueblos, etnicidades, nombres de hombres, nombres de pueblos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huitz(tli), thorn, spine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
-nahuac, next to, on the side of, near; close to; with, in company of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuac
-catl (affiliation suffix), person of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Huitznahuac)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 725r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=528&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: