Yohualpapalotl (MH858r)

Yohualpapalotl (MH858r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yohualpapalotl ("Night Butterfly" or "Moth") shows a frontal view of a butterfly. Only the butterfly is expressed visually, and nothing obvious appears to indicate that it is a nocturnal insect.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The term chahuapapalotl is also translated as "night butterfly" and "moth," which would support the yahualpapalotl also translating as "moth."

Most glyphs of butterflies include curling antennae (see some examples, below), but this one does not. The other examples, below, all appear in a profile view.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

yovalpāpālotl

Gloss Normalization:

Yohualpapalotl

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

symmetry

Keywords:

insectos, mariposas, noche, nocturno, nocturnal, nighttime, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yohual(li), night, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yohualli
papalo(tl), butterfly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/papalotl
chahuapapalo(tl), night butterfly or moth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chahuapapalotl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 858r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=788&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: