Ocuil (MH575r)

Ocuil (MH575r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ocuil (“Worm,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of a worm in an S-shape. The worm has some texturing.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This worm does not have the same features as the worms in the Codex Mendoza from nearly two decades earlier. Those can include legs with feet a head with eyes, fangs, and a bifurcated tongue. This worm here is more akin to the Ocuil on MH526r.

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, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
cuil (tracking)
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
S-shapes (any direction)
curving, curvy, curved
dotted, granular, textured
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

worms, gusanos

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

ocuil(in), worm, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocuilin

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 575r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=229&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

ocuilin (Mdz10v)

ocuilin (Mdz34r)

ocuilin (Mdz65r)

Ocuil (MH526r)

Ocuil (MH777r)

Ocuil (MH680v)