Xochitonal (MH869r)

Xochitonal (MH869r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochitonal (perhaps “Flower’s Solar Animating Force”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a flower with three visible petals and two anthers with little circles emerging at the top.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The glyphs for Xochitonal generally show flowers, but the tonal part can vary from sunrays to suns with faces. One example, however, uses a nenetl (presumably a deity figurine), which links Xochitonal with Xochiteotl, given that xochiteotl glyphs occasionally use nenetl for teotl (divinity).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

di^o. xochitonal

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:

Celestial Phenomena

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

flores, tonalli, soles, fuerzas divinas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
tonal(li), sun, day, solar animating force, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Fuerza Divina Solar del la Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 869r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=810&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: