Quiyauh (MH498r)

Quiyauh (MH498r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Quiyauh (“It Has Rained,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of three streams of water--triangular with lines of current showing movement. The streams on the right and left have a circular droplet or bead at the bottom of each one. The middle one has ends in a turbinate shell. The three streams are joined at the top with a straight, horizontal line.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Quiyahuitl is a day sign in the 260-day divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli, which gives it a religious significance. If this is a calendrical name, the numerical coefficient has dropped away. That could represent a fading of the tradition or an effort to suppress the association with pre-contact religious practices that might have angered the colonial clergy.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro
guiyauh

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Quiyauh

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: 
calendrics
day name
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
phrase or sentence
visible movement
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Celestial Phenomena
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Water
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
horizontal
frontal view
rectangular
shading and parallel line hatching
triangular
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

rain, lluvia, quiyahuitl

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

quiyahui, rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Ha Llovido

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=75&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).

Orthography: 
"g" for c, q, or x
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Quiyauh (MH491v)

Quiyauh (MH497v)

Quiyauh (MH648v)

Quiyauh (MH833v)

Quiyauh (MH770r)