Xopanatl (MH812v)

Xopanatl (MH812v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xopanatl (“Summer Waters”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of a rectangular agricultural field with plants (a semantic indicator for the growing season, xopan, summer). Behind and below the field are swirls of water (atl), both rectangular and rounded. Here, water is semantic for rain.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

"Summer waters" might refer to the heavy rains and/or to the accumulation of rainwater on the ground. Xopan also refers to green new growth that comes as a result of summer rain. Given that this collection also contains a Xopanteotl (divine force of the summer growing season), this name could have a religious significance.

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: 
calendrics
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Water
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
front to back
Keywords: 

tiempo, lluvias, aguas, temporada de crecimiento, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

Xopanatl, a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xopanatl-0
xopan, summer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xopan
atl, water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Lluvia de Verano

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 812v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=699&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: 
intrusive "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xopanteotl (MH771r)

Xopanatl (MH836r)