Tecayehua (MH896v)

Tecayehua (MH896v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tecayehuatl (“Headless or Crazy Madman”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. Something, such as a square cloth or a piece of paper covers most of his head, leaving only the face partly visible. It is unclear how this visual represents a headless man or a person with crazy ideas (tecayehuatl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

gaspar / decayeva veve

Gloss Normalization: 

Gaspar Tecayehuatl, huehue

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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (female)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
rectangular
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
Keywords: 

arcos, cabezas, ideas locos, nombres de hombres

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

Tecayehuatl, a name, also a headless or crazy madman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecayehuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Loco, o Sin Cabeza

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 896v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=865&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: 
"d" for t
"v" for u, uh, or hu
forward slash
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cuatlahuitolle (MH676r)