Xochitetequi (MH503r)

Xochitetequi (MH503r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph personal name Xochitetequi ("Flower Cutter," shows a flower (xochitl), attested here as a man's name) with a hand over it, cupping the top of the flower. Presumably, the hand is there to represent someone who cuts (tetequi) flowers into pieces. The flower has three prominent petals with swirling edges, a stem, and two pestils or stamens. Bracketing the tips of the later may be anthers.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The bracketing shape of the anthers, if that is what they are, is reminiscent of the bracketing of something in the Quetzalcoatl glyph, below. Bracketing also appears in Necoc and Nepancauh. This is a practice being tracked here for possible subtle meanings.

In some flowers, perhaps more than this one, the anthers will 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.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

matheo
xochiteteq~

Gloss Normalization:

Mateo Xochitetequi

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

verb

visible movement

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Sexuality, Fertility

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

vertical, upright

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

flowers, flores, to cut, cortar, verbs, verbos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
tequi, to cut up, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequi
tetequi, to cut into pieces, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetequi

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 503r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=83&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: