Olin (MH615v)

Olin (MH615v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Olin ("Movement" or "Earthquake") shows what appears to be a toy spinning top, vertical, with a disc on a stick, positioned up near the top. The edge of the disc is black.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

If this is a toy spinning top, the use of this image as the simplex glyph for olin suggests European cultural influence. The gloss is ambiguous as to whether olin or olli is intended, but something spinning would suggest movement, making it olin. If this were olli (rubber, ball) a black rubber ball would enter into the glyph. Sometimes both are present together, one serving as a phonetic complement, and sometimes it is also a challenge to decide which is the intended name.

Olin was a day name in the 260-day divinatory calendar called the tonalpohualli in Nahuatl. This calendar had a role in various Mesoamerican religions, including the Mixtec.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

atonio holli

Gloss Normalization:

Antonio Olin

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

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Toys

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

segmented

vertical, upright

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

movimiento, girando, spinning, turning, movement, nombres de hombres, espiral

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ol(in), movement, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/olin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Movimiento

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 615v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=313st=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:

"ll" for l

dropped "n"

intrusive "h" or "hu"

Historical Contextualizing Image: