Tlamayo (MH832v)

Tlamayo (MH832v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlamayo (perhaps "Having the Chracteristics of a Wise Man") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph is a large stellar or starry eye, typically used to represent the wise one, Tlamauh (from the verb, tlamati, to practice trickery or sorcery), which is a name very close to this one. We are reading the -yo ending to come from -yotl, having the characteristics of.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While the -yo suffix could also attach to the noun tlama (healer), making this name somewhat different, it is unlikely given the visual representation of the name here. The glyph for a physician or healer is usually a ceramic pot that has instruments showing at the top of the jug.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā tlamayo

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Tlamayo

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
Education, Knowledge, Wisdom
Gender (male)
Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
half circle
frontal view
Keywords: 

sabios, curanderos, curanderas, ojos, nombres de hombres

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

tlamauh, wise one, knowledgeable person, or possibly sorcerer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamauh
tlamauh(tli), crazed, berzerk, or infected, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamauhtli
ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
ixtlamati, to be wise, prudent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtlamati
tlamati, to know something, to jest, or to practice "sorcery" (verb), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamati
tlamatini, a sage, wise person, scholar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamatini
tlama, someone knowledgeable, also a medico, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlama-0
-yotl, having the nature of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Que Tiene las Características de un Sabio

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 832v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=739&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: 

Tlamayo (MH619v)

Tlamauh (MH660r)

ixtli (Mdz51r)

Ixtlamati (MH624r)

Ecaix (MH520r)