mazatl (MH483v)

mazatl (MH483v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black and white drawing represents a deer (mazatl). The deer is shown in profile, facing to the viewer's right. It has antlers, two points on each side of his head. Its eye is open, and there is a little texturing on its coat.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The mazatl is a day sign in the tonalpohualli, or 260-day calendar, and it is a common personal name, as a result. Typically, however, it would have had a numerical companion. By the date of this manuscript, 1560, many calendrical personal names were losing the companion number. Whethere this was natural attrition or an effort to move away for pre-contact naming traditions that might have been discouraged by the Catholic Church, is difficult to say.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

maçatl

Gloss Normalization: 

mazatl

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
Keywords: 

calendars, calendarios, fechas, dates, tonalpohualli, días

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

mazatl, deer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mazatl.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el venado

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483v, World Digital Library,  https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=46&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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