Xochipepena (MH626r)

Xochipepena (MH626r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochipepena ("He Chooses Flowers" or "He Harvests Flowers") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a flower (xochitl) with three petals and two pistils or stamens with small anthers. A (right) hand is picking (choosing or gathering, pepena) the flower at its sepal.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Pehpena (here showing the glottal stop) was used in many cases to refer to a kind of labor, a harvesting. Frances Karttunen notes how the term is combined with many "harvestable" or "collectable" items, such as firewood, maize, and tomatoes (see our Online Nahuatl Dictionary). If flowers were a required item for harvesting, that says something interesting about the culture. The term pehpena also applies to elections (choosing a leader). See our dictionary for examples of the term's usage.

In some flowers, somewhat more than this one, the anthers can be pronounced. The anthers are the flower parts that produce and provide the pollen, which has the reproductive capacity that has been compared in Western cultures to semen.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

antonio
xochipepena

Gloss Normalization:

Antonio Xochipepena

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)

phrase or sentence

reduplication (in gloss/text)

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Occupations

Sexuality, Fertility

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

flowers, recolectar, recoger flores, escoger flores, manos, hands, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
pepena, to choose, to gather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pepena

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Escoge Flores, o Cosecha Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 626r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=334&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).

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