Tehuehuel (MH606v)

Tehuehuel (MH606v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph of the personal name Tehuehuel shows a circle (representing a small shield, tehuehuelli) with a stone (tetl) inside it. The stone, with its classic curling ends and diagonal stripes, is a phonetic indicator that this name starts with Te-.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The way tehuehuelli is used in early manuscripts not only recalls the diphrasism for war (being paired with tlacochtli), but seems to refer to a fetus and the struggle of childbirth. If the latter is coming into play, perhaps the circle could resemble a womb, and the stone inside could resemble a fetus. The techimalli (below) might also be considered in this light.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro tevevel

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tehuehuel

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

diagonal or angled

horizontal

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

striped

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

circles, círculos, escudos, rodelas, redondo, piedras

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tehuehuel(li), a small shield; possibly a metaphor for a fetus or the strength necessary for birth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tehuehuelli
te(tl), stone or rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 606v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=295&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: