Tochhuicol (MH676v)

Tochhuicol (MH676v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tochhuicol (literally, “Rabbit Pitcher,” but apparently referring to a “Pulque Pitcher”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a small ceramic pitcher with a narrow neck and a large handle. The pitcher has horizontal hatching for three-dimensionality.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The beverage of choice may have been octli (what is called pulque today), fermented agave juice. “Four hundred rabbits” (centzontotochtin) was an expression referring to pulque and being very drunk. The rabbit was a calendrical sign, and there were divine forces associated with rabbits. Below, see a scene from the Florentine Codex showing a man who is drunk. In the lower left corner is a pitcher with a turquoise blue liquid spilling out from it.

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Beverages

Ceramics, Pottery

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

frontal view

Keywords:

conejos, pulque, bebidas alcohólicas, jarras, cerámica, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tochhuia, to turn into a rabbit, i.e., get drunk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochhuia
huicol(li), a little pitcher, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huicolli
centzontotochtin, “four hundred rabbits,” i.e., pulque, or the state of being very drunk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centzontotochtin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Jarra Pequeña de Conejos, o Jarra Pequeña Para Pulque

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 676v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=433&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: