Huitztli Yolqui (MH608v)

Huitztli Yolqui (MH608v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huitztli Yolqui (perhaps "Living Thorns") is attested here as a man's name.

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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Religion (Indigenous)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
frontal view
Keywords: 

living spines, espinas vivas, huitztli, yollotl, huitztliyolqui, thorns, espinas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

huitz(tli), thorns, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
yolqui, living things, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yolqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Espinas Vivas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 608v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=299st=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: 
See Also: 

huitztli (Mdz59r)

huitztli (Mdz47r)

tlacoquixtia (TR9r)

yolqui (MH608v)