Piltzintecuhtli (TR8r)

Piltzintecuhtli (TR8r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This example of iconography from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis shows the "Night Lord," i.e. one of the patrons of the second half of the first trecena (13-day period associated with a group of deities or divine forces), called Piltzintecuhtli ("Prince-Lord"). He was a solar deity, linked to Tonatiuh and associated with the rising sun, healing, and visions. He has feathers in multiple colors, white feathers, and a couple of green stone or jade jewels.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

It seems there are other divine forces with the name Piltzintecuhtli, or, if not, then his characteristics and associations are all over the map. Since he is not a patron of the trecena in which he appears, the information about him is much more abbreviated.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pilçinteoctli

Gloss Normalization: 

Piltzintecuhtli or Piltzin Tecuhtli

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
deity name/theonym
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Feathers
Health, Medicine
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Politics, Power, Governance
Religion (Indigenous)
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black
blue (sky blue)
green (light)
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

deities, deidades, divinities, divinidades, divine forces, fuerzas divinas, plumas, feathers, jades, príncipes, señores, teuctli

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

pilli, a person of noble lineage, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pilli
tecuhtli, a lord, an important nobleman heading a lordly house or teccalli, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Príncipe-Señor

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 8 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f41.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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