Temiz (MH497v)

Temiz (MH497v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Temiz (here, attested male) consists of a profile view of the the full body of a wild cat or mountain lion (temiztli) apparently climbing on a horizontal stone (tetl). The cat's visible eye is open. The stone has curling ends and diagonal lines across it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The tetl in this compound does not have a semantic role but provides a phonetic indication that the name starts with Te-, for Temiztli and not some other animal. But reading the glyph out loud would not require that the stone be read. Wild cats, cougars, mountain lions (called pumas in Spanish) are formidable animals. According to twentieth-century ethnography, a nahualli could take the shape of a cat. See Los cuentos en náhuatl de Doña Luz Jiménez, recop. Fernando Horcasitas and Sarah O. de Ford (México, UNAM, 1979), 32–33.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

luys
temiz

Gloss Normalization: 

Luis Temiz

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: 
phonetic dimensions
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
scalloped edges
shading and parallel line hatching
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Keywords: 

mountain lions, pumas, stones, piedras, wild cats, wildcats

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
miz(tli), wild cat or mountain lion, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miztli
temiz(tli), a wild cat, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/temiztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Puma

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 497v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=74&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: 
See Also: 

Temiz (MH493r)

Temizatl (MH627r)