Tezcatonatiuh (MH674v)

Tezcatonatiuh (MH674v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tezcatonatiuh (“Mirror-Sun”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a mirror (tezcatl) that is hanging by a tie at the top. The mirror also has a white border around a black (presumably obsidian) center, and solar rays (providing the tonatiuh part of the name) rays emanate from it all around the outer circle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Not how the shimmer of this sun consists of many short lines, whereas what may be shimmer on the mirrors in the Codex Mendoza (f. 29 recto and f. 42 recto) consists of four small circles evenly placed around the perimeter of the mirror’s border.

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)

rays (e.g., tonalli, tonatiuh, or ilhuitl)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Celestial Phenomena

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement

tied, bound, or bundled

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

espejos, soles, atados, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tezca(tl), mirror, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezcatl
tonatiuh, sun, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonatiuh

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Espejo-Sol

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 674v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=429&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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