Toztemal (MH895v)

Toztemal (MH895v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Toztemal (perhaps “Yellow-Headed Parrot-Sorcerer”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. On his head is a bird’s head, apparently a bird called toztli (a yellow-headed parrot). The beak of the parrot in this image is a long curving one that reaches down to connect with the mouth of the man. The back of the parrot’s head shows extremely long, horizontal, streaming feathers. It is this feature that may point to -timal (another spelling for -temal), the name of a man mentioned in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca (1598) as having necromantic powers.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The association between a bird and the powers of a sorcerer may also be suggested in the names Cuauhtemal.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po. toztimal

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Toztimal

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals: Birds
Excretions (bodily, human or animal)
Feathers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

pájaros, hechiceros, loros amarillos, podredumbre, pus, nombres de hombres

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

toz(tli), Yellow-headed Amazon parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
temal(li), pus, rot, or a man’s name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Loro de Cabeza Amarilla-Hechicero

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 895v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=863&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: 

Toztimal (MH560r)

Timal (MH516r)

Timal (MH569v)

Timal (MH570r)

Cuauhtemaltzin (MH752r)

Cuauhtemal (MH603v)