Tochhuatzal (MH815v)

Tochhuatzal (MH815v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tochhuatzal (perhaps “Rabbit Tied Tightly”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a rabbit (tochtli) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. The animal is tied to a pole at its neck and at its ankles.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Tochtli is a day name in the religious 260-day divinatory calendar. But here the animal appears to be one that may have been hunted, caught, and tied up.

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Hunting and Fishing

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

tied, bound, or bundled

profile view

facing right

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

right to left

Keywords:

conejos, atados, cazar, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli
huatzal(li), something dried or something tied very tightly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huatzalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Conejo Atado Fuertemente

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 815v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=705&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:

dropped "h"

Historical Contextualizing Image: