Tochtli (MH485v)

Tochtli (MH485v)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph stands for the personal name Tochtli ("Rabbit"). 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. But it was the tonalpohualli that was the source of many names for Nahua children. 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

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

antonio tochtli

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Antonio Tochtli

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
year name
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Rabbits
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
Keywords: 

rabbits, conejos, calendars, calendarios, 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

Image Source: 

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

tochtli (Mdz46r)

tochtli (CQ)