Xochiteotl (MH486r)

Xochiteotl (MH486r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the personal name Xochiteotl (perhaps "Flower Divinity") is attested here as a man's name. It includes two elements. One is a flower (xochitl), upright, with three or four petals. The other is a stone (tetl), horizontal, with curving stripes and curlicues at both ends. The stone is a phonetic indicator for teotl.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The stone (tetl) here seems to provide the phonetic start of the word teotl (divine force or deity). It is unclear why the artist did not attempt a visual of the word teotl, when such a glyph may have been known to him. Perhaps the tetl was quicker and easier.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

merchiol xochiteotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Melchor Xochiteotl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

flowers, flores, stones, piedras, deidades, deities, divinidades, divinities, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

"Flower-Deity" or "Sacred Flower" [H.B. Nicholson, in Mesoamerican Writing Systems, ed. Elizabeth P. Benson (1973), 28.]

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La fuerza divina de la flor (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 486r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=51&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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