tonatiuh cualo (TR40v)

tonatiuh cualo (TR40v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a multicolored painting of the compound glyph for tonatiuh cualo ("the sun is eaten," i.e., a solar eclipse).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See Marc Thouvenot's vignette about an image featuring tonatiuh qualloya from the Códice Matritense del Palacio Real: https://vignettes.sup-infor.com/imagen/4-PR_01_282r_c.

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
phrase or sentence
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Celestial Phenomena
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
green (light)
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
boxed in
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
triangular
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

eclipses, suns, soles, cielo, sky, stars, estrellas

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

tonatiuh cualo, for an eclipse to occur, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonatiuh-cualo

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

un eclipse de sol

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 40 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f106.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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