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

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

deity name/theonym

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Religion (Indigenous)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

striped

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

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

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
teo(tl), divine force or deity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teotl
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl

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:

posiblemente, Flor-Divinidad

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).

Orthography:

"l" for r

"r" for l

Historical Contextualizing Image: