Motlahuelcahua (MH756r)

Motlahuelcahua (MH756r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Motlahuelcahua (perhaps, “Blinded with Anger”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing right, and with tears running down his cheek, showing emotion. The visible eye is blackened, perhaps as a reference to being blinded with anger (tlahuelcahua).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The person with this name does not appear to have a Spanish first (or given) name. Perhaps he was not yet baptized.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Emotions
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

visión, ciego, enojo, nombres de hombres

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

tlahuelcahua, irrational with anger or blinded with anger, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuelcahua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cegado Por La Ira

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 756r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=590&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).

Orthography: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

ixpopoyotl (MH546v)