Tlaltetecuin (MH680r)

Tlaltetecuin (MH680r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlaltetecuin (“Earth Stomper”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows swirling dots (tlalli) with five volutes in the middle. The volutes suggest visible sound, such as the pounding (tetecuini) sound from the earth that the name suggests.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

In the various examples of Tlaltetecuin that appear below, the one from folio 813 verso stands out as somewhat different, with its emphasis on flames over pounding or stomping.

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)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

visible sound

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

dotted, granular, textured

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

sonido visible, tierra atronadora, pisotear, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tlaltetecuin, the name of a divine force or deity, “The Earth Stomper,” another name for Ixtlilton, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaltetecuin
tecuini, to pound or throb, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuini
tetecuitza, to stomp, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetecuitza
tetecuin(tli), that which makes a noise while cracking, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetecuintli
tlal(li), land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Pisoteador de la Tierra

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 680r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=440&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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