Quiyauh (MH648v)

Quiyauh (MH648v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painting of the simplex glyph for the personal name Quiyauh (“It Has Rained,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a stream of water--triangular with a circular droplet or bead at the top and lines of current showing movement. The entire glyph has a turquoise blue watercolor painted over it.

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. Because of colonial edicts to stop using the tonalpohualli as a source for names, one thing that happened is that the companion numbers were dropped, perhaps as a stopgap measure to reduce the sacred nature of the name. See Norma Angélica Castilla Palma, "Las huellas del oficio y lo sagrado en los nombres nahuas de familias y barrios de Cholula," Dimensión Antropológica v. 65 (sept.-dic. 2015), 186.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro quiauh

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

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
visible movement
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
frontal view
Keywords: 

water, rain, lluvia, día, calendario, tonalpohualli

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

quiyahu(itl), rain and a day name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Lluvia

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=379&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: 
dropped "y"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Quiyauh (MH491v)

Quiyauh (MH497v)

Quiyauh (MH498r)

quiyahuitl (Mdz8r)

Quiyauh (MH833v)