Yauhtemoc (MH517r)

Yauhtemoc (MH517r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the personal name Yauhtemoc (perhaps "The Combatant Has Descended") includes three black footprints. They alternated, left-right-left, as they descended (temoc, which is the past tense of the verb temo, to descend). Also implied in this movement across the landscape is the verb to go (yauh) (in the present tense).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

x^opo ual yauhtemoc

Gloss Normalization:

Cristóbal Yauhtemoc

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:

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

bird's eye view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

footprints, huellas, descend, descender, bajar

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yauh, to go, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yauh
temo, to descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temo

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 517r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=113&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: