Tlequiyauh (MH501v)

Tlequiyauh (MH501v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlequiyauh (“Fire-Rain,” attested here as a man’s name) shows curling flames and/or smoke from a fire [tletl on the right and, on the left, two streams of rain coming down, with droplets or shells at the bottom of each one. The streams have a triangular shape and a line of current down the middle, suggesting flow and movement.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This name is reminiscent of the metaphor, in teoatl, in tlachinolli, or in atl, in tlachinolli, about disasters that can strike, such as floods and scorched earth.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

diego
tlequiyauh

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Tlequiyauh

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)

visual movement

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

vertical, upright

triangular

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

water, agua, rain, lluvia, smoke, humo, fire, fuego, flames, flamas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tle(tl), flames, fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
quiyahui(tl), rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl
atl tlachinolli, flood and conflagration metaphor for war, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl-tlachinolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Fuego-Lluvia

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 501v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=82&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: