Temoc (MH493v)

Temoc (MH493v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-ink drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Temoc (perhaps "He Has Descended") shows two, vertical, alternating footprints pointed downwards (right foot at the top, left foot at the bottom). Each footprint includes five toe prints.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The glyph recalls the verb, temo, to descend, and the added -c suggests past tense ("descended"). The historical contextualizing image attests here that Temoc is a man's name here.

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego temoc

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Temoc

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
preterit tense
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
vertical, upright
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

verbs, verbos, bajar, bajando, huellas, nombres de hombres

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

temo, to descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temo

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Bajó

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 493v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=65&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: 

Temoc (MH653r)

Temoc (MH502r)

Temoc (MH565r)

Ihuitl Temoc (MH508r)

Ihuitl Temoc (MH622r)