mayanalo (TR32r)

mayanalo (TR32r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This example of iconography from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis shows the impact of starvation ("there is famine," mayanalo) during a crisis in the year 1454. One woman and two men are shown in disarray and with their eyes closed and their bodies turning different directions. Dotted volutes emerge from their mouths and swirl around them, as well.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This adds to the tlacuilo's repertoire in the use of volutes to show, in this case, grave discomfort, involving perhaps moaning or vomiting. The scene is full of visual movement. It does resemble one of the examples of wind (ehecatl) in this collection which also has dotted volutes (see below).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

vuo tanta hanbre que mu[-]
rian los onbres danbre

Gloss Normalization: 

hubo tanta hambre que morían los hombres de hambre

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Keywords: 

scrolls, volutes, volutas, remolinos, rizos, enrollados, mayanani, xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

hay hambre

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 32 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f89.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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