Teohua (MH694r)

Teohua (MH694r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teohua (perhaps “Possessor of Divinity”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile view (facing right) of a building (perhaps a teopan, although it appears to be a calli). In the entryway and spilling out and downward is a spiral of water with four short streams coming off the spiral. Each stream has a droplet at its lower tip. The water also has lines of current (showing movement).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See some additional examples of the name Teohua below. The use of stone (tetl) as the phonetic indicator for start to the name, Te-, is interesting in those examples, as here, where there may be an avoidance on the part of the tlacuilo to draw something divine, perhaps with the intention of not drawing attention to Indigenous religious content.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

bartasal teouā

Gloss Normalization: 

Baltazar Teohua

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)
possessive pronoun
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
facing right
profile view
rectangular
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

edificios, agua, remolinos, divinidad, deidades, religión indígena, nombres de hombres

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

teo(tl), divinity or a divine force, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teotl
-hua (singular possessive suffix), possessor of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Poseedor de Divinidad

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 694r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=468&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: 
"l" for r
"r" for l
"s" for z
"u" for hu
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Teohua (MH565r)

Teohua (MH670r)