Yaomana (MH677r)

Yaomana (MH677r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yaomana (“He Declares War”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a horizontal projectile weapon with a jagged point, such as a tlaxichtli, and to the right of that, a (right) hand (maitl) reaching toward a circle with the designs of one of the typical war shields (chimalli), a semantic indicator for Yao-. The hand, however, is a phonetic indicator for -ma- in the middle of the name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Yaotl (enemy, combatant), as a name, typically shows a combined shield and turtle (ayotl) shell, which is a near homophone.

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: 
line connecting elements
phrase or sentence
verb
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiky
circle, circular or rounded
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

escudos, flechas, nombres de hombres

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

yaomana, to declare war, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaomana

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Declara Guerra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 677r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=434&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: 
See Also: 

Tlaxich (MH517r)

Tlaxich (MH495v)

Tlaxich (MH718r)

chimalli (MH616v)

Chimalman (MH652v)

Chimalcueyo (MH643r)