Pain (MH498v)

Pain (MH498v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Pain ("He Runs Fast," attested here as a man's name) shows a bird's eye view of two footprints on a diagonal, going upward and to the viewer's left. At the bottom is the left footprint, and at the top is the right footprint. Each footprint has five toe prints (dots).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The alternation of the footprints creates a sense of movement across a landscape. The speed of the movement, which is part of the name, is not shown visually. See another glyph, below, for Yaopain, a combatant who runs fast.

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juā
payn

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Pain

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
phrase or sentence
verb
visible movement
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
facing upward
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

runs, corre, correr rápido

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

paina, to run fast, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/paina

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Que Corre Rápido

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=76&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: 

Pain (MH519r)

Yaopain (MH522r)