Tlalolin (MH811r)

Tlalolin (MH811r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlalolin (“The Earth Quaked” or shook) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a rectangle that represents agricultural land (tlalli) or the surface of the Earth (also tlalli). In the middle of the rectangle is the sign for olin (movement), which is a calendrical day name in the 260-day religious divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The concept of movement (not just in the form of earthquakes) permeates Nahua culture, as James Maffie (Aztec Philosophy, 2014) has described extensively. Olin is a day sign in the 260-day divinatory calendar (the tonalpohualli). This calendar played an important role in Nahuas' religious views of the cosmos. The colors and precise shape of the olin glyph do vary within manuscripts and across them.

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: 
calendrics
personal name
Syntax: 
phrase or sentence
verb
preterit tense
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
rectangular
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

temblores, movimiento, calendarios, días, days, calendars, fechas, dates

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

tlalolini, for the earth to quake, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalolini
tlal(li), land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
ol(in), movement, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/olin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Tembló la Tierra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 811r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=696&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: 

Tlalolin (MH744v)

Tlalolin (MH640r)

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