Tlapayauh (MH758v)

Tlapayauh (MH758v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

Descrip: This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlapayauh ("Heavy Rain" or “It Has Rained Lightly for a Long Tie"), attested here as a man’s name, shows some clouds, an arch that may represent the sky, a small circle with a dot in the center, and eight lines of rain coming from the circle. Each vertical line of rain has a droplet at the bottom, and all the droplets end in a horizontal row.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

For another sky that arches, see the glyph for Ilhuicaxochitl, below. It could be fruitful to investigate the shapes of skies, given that a sky band could be horizontal, such as appears in the glyph for Ilhuicamina, also below. Does a curving sky appear in pre-contact art, or was it introduced by Europeans, a feature of Christianity?

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)

phrase or sentence

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous Christianity)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Water

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

lluvia ligera, neblina, nubes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlapayahui, to rain lightly for a long time, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapayahui
quiyahui(tl), the rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Llovía Ligeramente por Mucho Tiempo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 758v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=595&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: