tecuilhuitontli (TR1r)

tecuilhuitontli (TR1r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This example of the festival and month called tecuilhuitontli, in the xiuhpohualli calendar, is included here as an example of iconography for use in comparisons with hieroglyphic writing. It provides examples of what we might call sandals (cacatli), dancers' leg bells (coyolli), paper (amatl) adornments with black liquid rubber (olli) designs, turquoise (xihuitl) jewelry, quetzalli feathers, and more.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tecuil vitontl.

Gloss Normalization:

tecuilhuitontli

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:

calendrics

month name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Face Paint or Tattoos

Feathers

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (female)

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Water

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

purple (light)/lavender

tan

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

sal, salteros, salt, water, agua, banners, banderas, lluvia, rain, deidades, divinidades, religión, fiestas, meses, veintenas, veinte días, calendarios, textiles, plumas, sandalias, cactli, xo, face paint, earplug, orejera

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tecuilhuitontli, a month of 20 days, a festival associated with a divine force relating to salt workers, salt water, and rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuilhuitontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(nombre de un mes de veinte días relacionado con la diosa de los salineros, agua salada, y la lluvia)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 1 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f27.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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