Tochcuacuauh (MH508r)

Tochcuacuauh (MH508r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tochcuacuauh (here, attested male), shows a rabbit (tochtli) head in profile, facing toward the viewer's left. The head has some added horns (cuacuauhuitl). The rabbit's fur is textured, and its eye is open. The antlers are racks with three points each.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Of course, rabbits do not have antlers or horns, so the significance behind this name, something like Rabbit-Horns, is a challenge to interpret. Perhaps there was another small animal called a Tochcuahuitl. Juan José Batalla Rosado (El Arte de Escribir, 2018, 76) includes the cuacuahuitl ("cuerno de animal") in his list of visual loans. He finds the Matrícula de Huexotzinco to show the greatest degree of Western influence of all colonial codices.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

martin
tochguaguauh

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín Cuacuauh

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)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
pointed (see also spiky)
tripartite
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

conejos, cuernos, rabbits, horns, antlers

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

toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
cuacuahue, a horned animal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuacuahue
cuacuahui(tl), the horns of an animal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuacuahuitl-2
cuahui(tl), wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Conejo-Cuernos

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 508r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=95&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: 

Tochcuahuitl (MH495v)