popoca (MH483v)

popoca (MH483v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for the verb "it smokes" (popoca) has been carved from the compound sign for the personal name, Atlpopoca. It consists of three upright, curling puffs of smoke, drawn in dark in and left natural. Two or three additional, straight lines emanate up from the same region. In the original compound glyph, these marks were rising up from swirling water with flames on top.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, modern state of Puebla

Syntax: 
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

smoke, humo, smoking, humear, humeando

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

popoca, to smoke, i.e. for smoke to emerge from something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el humo se eleva

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=46&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: 

Atl Popoca (MH483v)

Xiuhtlapoca (MH624v)