Teuhcatl (MH901r)

Teuhcatl (MH901r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teuhtli (the name of a divine force akin to Mixcoatl, Cloud Serpent) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a horizontal stone (tetl), which provides the phonetic start to the name, Te-. The stone has some of the hallmarks of the sign, with its curling ends and wavy diagonal stripes across the middle. Coming off the top of the stone are two curling volutes and many wavy black and gray lines, suggestive of dust (teuhtli). The -catl affiliation suffix is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See some other tlacuilos’ renditions of the hieroglyph for Teuhcatl, which vary considerably. One of the most unusual includes Ecatl attributes, but this makes sense given the significance of swirling dust and rain clouds, whose movement is prompted by wind.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po. teuhcatl, texinq~

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Teuhcatl, texinnqui

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
frontal view
horizontal
striped
volute(s)
wavy
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

polvo, remolinos, torbelinas, divinidades, religión indígena, nombres de hombres

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

Teuhcatl, both the name of a divine force and a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teuhcatl
teuh(tli), dust, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teuhtli
ca(tl), affiliation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(el nombre de una fuerza divina asociada con torbelinas de polvo)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 901r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=874&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: 

Teuhcatl (MH776v)

Teuhcatl (MH797r)

Teuhcatl (MH508v)

Teuhcatl (MH506r)

Teuhcatl (MH485v)

Teuhcatl (MH560v)

Teuhcatl (MH876r)