Macuilcuauh (MH817v)

Macuilcuauh (MH817v)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Macuilcuauh (“Five Eagle” or “5-Eagle”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of an eagle in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. A line connects the beak to a horizontal row of five small circles, representing five ones.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Macuilcuauh, short for Macuilli Cuauhtli, is a name drawn from the 260-day religious divinatory calendar called the tonalpohualli. Many children's names came from this calendar, and the parents believed that the fate of the child was influenced by the day upon which they were born.

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:

calendrics

day name

numbers

personal name

Syntax:

line connecting elements

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

profile view

horizontal

facing right

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

números, nombres de días, nombres de hombres, calendarios, plantas, fiestas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cinco Águila, o 5-Águila

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 817v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=709&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: