Tetonehua (MH816r)

Tetonehua (MH816r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tetonehua (“He Torments People”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. He has two protrusions (short braids?) standing up on the top of his head.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The protrusions on the head may be meant to frighten people. See other examples of figures that may be formidable or meant to frighten people.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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)

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Personality, Behavior

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

atormentar, aflicción, afligir, susto, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tonehua, to torment or afflict, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonehua
te-, impersonal possessive prefix, someone or people in general, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Tormenta a la Gente

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 816r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=706&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).

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