Macuilmazatl (MH495v)

Macuilmazatl (MH495v)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This combined simplex glyph and notation produces the date Five Deer (Macuilli Mazatl). The number five is shown as five dots or small circles running horizontally above the head of a deer. The dear is shown in profile, looking toward the viewer's left. It has horns of three points on the left and four points on the right. Its visible eye is open. Some texturing appears on the animals head.

Added Analysis:

Calendrics played a significant part in the Nahuas' religious views of the cosmos. The mazatl is a day sign in the tonalpohualli, the 260-day divinatory calendar, and therefore it was a popular name for babies born on the day of mazatl. The horns as shown in the Codex Mendoza (below) may be an autonomous-era way of drawing them, not on both sides of the head, but coming up in one multi-spiked column. The Matrícula de Huexotzinco tlacuiloque tend to have deer horns appearing on both sides of the animal's head.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juan
macuilmazatl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Macuilmazatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

dotted, granular, textured

facing left

profile view

pointed (see also spiky)

spiky

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

deer, venado, numbers, números, ones, unos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli
maza(tl), deer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mazatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cinco Venado, 5-Venado

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&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).

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