Xochiteotl (MH670v)

Xochiteotl (MH670v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochiteotl (perhaps "Flower Divinity") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a flower (xochitl) of at least three petals. Below the flower is a frontal view of the face of a man with notable chin hairs. Perhaps he is meant to represent Jesus Christ to provide for the logogram teotl (divine force or deity).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This digital collection includes a wide array of ways tlacuilos created hieroglyphs to represent the name Xochiteotl.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous Christianity)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

caras, barbas, flores, 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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

La fuerza divina de la flor (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 670v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=421&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: