Tlachinol (MH875r)

Tlachinol (MH875r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlachinol ("Fire" or "Conflagration") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows what may be a stream of water (atl, often combined in a metaphor with tlachinolli) at the bottom and three flames or smoke curls at the top, with short lines coming off them. But, the entire glyph is fairly stylized; the elements are difficult to discern.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Typical of names, the noun tlachinolli is apocopated, cutting off the absolutive -li.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlachinol

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:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Keywords:

fires, fuegos, flames, flamas, conflagración, tierra quemada, scorched earth, tlachinolli, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlachinol(li), fire, conflagration, 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:

El Fuego, o La Conflagración

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 875r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=822&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: