tochtli (MH485v)

tochtli (MH485v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black and white drawing of the simplex glyph for the noun for rabbit (touchtli) is shared with the simplex personal name Tochtli. The rabbit is shown only as a head, in profile, looking to the viewer's right. Its ears are long and leaning back somewhat. Its coat is textured.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The rabbit is associated with the moon in Nahua cosmology, and it is a day sign and a year sign in the Mesoamerican calendars, the tonalpohualli and xiuhpohualli. A person who was born on the day sign of the rabbit could bear its name. This man also has the baptismal name of Antonio.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 485v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&st=image.

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

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).

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
year name
day name
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres

Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

rabbits, conejos, calendarios, calendars, xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl

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

tochtli, rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el conejo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 485v, World Digital Library,

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: 

Tochtli (MH485v)