Macuilcoatl (MH734r)

Macuilcoatl (MH734r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Macuilcoatl ( “Five-Serpent”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a nearly vertical serpent, head down and rattler up. Its protruding tongue is bifurcated. Its eye is open. Five straight lines come off its back, representing the number five, which is part of the name. This is a calendrical name from the religious divinatory calendar called the tonalpohualli.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Calendrical names by the time of this manuscript (1560) were sometimes losing either the number of the day name. For instance, the name “Macuil” from macuilli (five) is found, as is simply “Coatl” (serpent). See some examples below, along with other calendrical names that still include both the number and the day name.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

felipe. macuilcouatl.

Gloss Normalization:

Felipe Macuilcoatl

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:

calendrics

day name

numbers

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Tongue Protruding/Noticeable

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Keywords:

serpientes, cascabeles, tonalpohualli, números, cinco, calendarios, nombres de días, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

coa(tl), snake, serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cinco-Serpiente

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 734r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=546&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:

intrusive "u"

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: