Tlachinol (MH608v)

Tlachinol (MH608v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the personal name Tlachinol ("Fire," or "Scorched Earth," that is often coupled with Atl, water, or Teoatl, divine water or holy flood, in diphrasis), is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a hand below a group of flames. Perhaps a human being is lighting a fire, perhaps to burn fields purposely, as part of the type of farming called slash and burn.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

baltasal tlachinol

Gloss Normalization:

Baltazar Tlachinol

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)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Keywords:

fires, fuegos, flames, flamas, hand, mano, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlachinol(li), fire, scorched earth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlachinolli

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120) refers to the name Yaotlachinol, witnessed in a census from the Cuernavaca region (1535–45), calling it as "The Scorching of War."

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Fuego, o Tierra Quemada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 608v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=299&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

"s" for z

Historical Contextualizing Image: