Mimich (MH840r)

Mimich (MH840r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mimich ("Fish," attested here as a man's name) consists of a frontal view of a horizontal fish (michin) with the head on the right. The fish has a division drawn the length of its body, plus scales and small fins coming off the edges of the fish. It almost appears to be a double fish.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The name is reduplicated in the gloss, and the nearly doubling of the fish might possibly be a visual reduplication to match the textual reduplication. Another one something like this is Mimich (MH521r). Magnus Pharao Hansen defines Mimich as "Little Fish." [See his blog from 2014, "Nahuatl Names: The Nahuatl names in the 1544 census of Morelos."] There is a Mimich for which this man may have been named who was a Cloud Serpent paired with Xiuhnel and associated with hunting. And the translators of the Primeros Memoriales say that Xiuhnel and Mimich were prominent figures in many migration stories of central Mexican cultures. See the Sullivan and Nicholson edition of the PM (1997, 135).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā mimich

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Mimich

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
Keywords: 

fish, peces, pescado, hunting, cazar, Serpientes de las Nubes, Cloud Serpents, nombres de hombres

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

Pez

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 840r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=754&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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