Ichan Tezcacoatl (MH709r)

Ichan Tezcacoatl (MH709r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Ichan Tezcacoatl (“Home of Tezcacoatl” or “Home of Mirror-Serpent”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows a profile view of a white rectangular home (chantli) with what are probably wooden T-shaped beams at the entrance, painted red and black. The name for this residence is Tezcacoatl (“Mirror-Serpent”), and it shows a black obsidian mirror (tezcatl) with a yellow border. Surrounding this mirror is a snake (coatl) with a protruding bifurcated red tongue and a protruding fang. Its belly is segmented into small pieces, and it has a red rattler tail.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This folio features nobles who have named homes, which is somewhat unusual. One could isolate the home’s place name as its own compound glyph.

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:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Teeth Protruding/Noticeable

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

bifurcated

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

serpientes, víboras, cascabeles, lenguas bifurcadas, espejos, casas, hogares, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli
i- (possessive pronoun), third person singular, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i
coa(tl), snake or serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
tezca(tl), mirror, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezcatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Hogal del Espejo-Serpiente

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 709r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=496&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:

"y" for i

intrusive "v"

Historical Contextualizing Image: