Tlapayauh (MH543r)

Tlapayauh (MH543r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the personal name Tlapayauh ("Heavy Rain" or "It Has Rained Lightly for a Long Time," attested here as a man's name) shows four triangular, short streams of rainwater, painted turquoise blue. The turquoise-blue triangles have small white circles at their lower ends. The four short streams alternate, low to high, low to high, from the viewer's left to the right, in a way that suggests visual movement (rain falling).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Short streams of water such as this (for example, in the glyphs for quihayuitl, rain) often have black lines of current down the middle of the triangles, but these do not. Also, the use of turquoise blue paint in the Matrícular de Huexotzinco is rare (but not in the Codex Mendoza). See some comparisons below.

Note the interesting spelling here in the gloss for the first name, Pardasal (Baltazar). We are tracking patterns in the evolution of orthography, and this one contributes evidence of four patterns. (See below.)

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pardasal tlapayauh

Gloss Normalization:

Baltazar Tlapayauh

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

phrase or sentence

visible movement

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Water

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

symmetry

vertical, upright

Keywords:

nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlapayahu(itl), a heavy rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapayahuitl
tlapayahui, to rain gently a long time, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapayahui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Llovía Ligeramente por Mucho Tiempo

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 543r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=165&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:

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