Xochitonal (MH642v)

Xochitonal (MH642v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochitonal (“Flower-Day,” "Flower-Sun," or a mythical iguana figure of Mictlan) is attested here as a man's name. It shows a vertical flower with a tripartite sepal, a bulbous body, and three small petals at the top. The tonalli (sun, day, solar animating force) is shown with what may be meant as five sun rays, shooting out to the viewer's right from the blossom.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Di^o sochitonal

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Xochitonal

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiky

shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement

vertical, upright

tripartite

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

flores, tonales, fuerza animadora del sol, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Xochitonal, a personal name and the name of a mythical creature (an iguana) in Mictlan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitonal
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
tonal(li), day, sun, solar animating force, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonalli

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120) says Xochtonal is "Flower Fate," a name that is a poetic metaphor. Cuernavaca region, 1535–1545.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Flor-Tonal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 642v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=367&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:

"s" for x

Historical Contextualizing Image: