Mixtlan (Mdz46r)

Mixtlan (Mdz46r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the place name Mixtlan has two components. One is mixtl)i, clouds, and the other is tlantl)i, literally teeth, but providing the phonetic indicator for the locative suffix, -tlan (near). The clouds here, appearing below the teeth, have swirling elements, entirely painted turquoise, the color of water. The teeth in this case are two, white, front teeth, and the gums above them are red.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Further research will determine whether this Mixtlan refers to a pueblo in the Sierra Occidental of what is now the state of Jalisco. Petroglyphs found there are a testimonial to the antiquity of its human occupation, https://tinyurl.com/4zh76wzy and https://tinyurl.com/ysvs3ntj.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

mixtlan /puo

Gloss Normalization: 

Mixtlan, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Water
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

clouds, nubes

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

mix(tli), cloud(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mixtli
-tlan (locative suffix), place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Karttunen’s Interpretation: 

"Cloud Place" [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

"In the Clouds" (Whittaker, 2021, 69); "Where There Are Many Clouds" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. 193)

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

"En las Nubes"

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood (based on Whittaker's English)

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

Mixtlan (Mdz10v)

tlantli (Mdz38r)

mixtli (Mdz46r)

tlantli (Mdz46r)