Yopi (MH811r)

Yopi (MH811r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yopi (either an ethnic name or a deity name, associated with Xipe Totec, and the flaying of sacrificial victims) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an anthropomorphic head in profile, facing the viewer’s right. It may be a man that is wearing the skin of another human on his head. The skin on this face has little U-shaped flaps. The U-shapes may invoke animal skin, as expressed in the glyph for ehuatl (hide) in the Codex Mendoza (see below).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

There is a sculpture of a Xipe Totec figure wearing what may be an animal skin. See: https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/aztecs/aztec-xipe-front.jpg

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: 
deity name/theonym
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Death, decay, decomposition
Gender (male)
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Religion (Indigenous)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

Xipetotec, Yopica, Yopico, calpulli, religión Nahua, deidades, fuerzas divinas, sacrificio humano, nombres de hombres

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

Yopi, deity/divine force, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yopi
Yopica, one of the calpolli that emerged from the Seven Caves, an ethnicity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yopica

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 811r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=696&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: 

ehuatl (Mdz40r)

Yopi (MH632r)

Yopi (MH633v)

Yopico (Mdz20r)

Xipe (Mxnus26)