Mimich (MH483r)

Mimich (MH483r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Mimich ("Fish," attested here as a man's name) shows a horizontal fish facing toward the viewer's right. Its eye and mouth appear to be open. Its body is scaled, and it has four small fins and a tail.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The gloss for this name includes a reduplication of the first syllable, but there is no corresponding visual reduplication. There is a Mimich, for which this man may have been named, who was a Cloud Serpent paired with Xiuhnel and associated with hunting. Magnus Pharao Hansen defines Mimich as "Little Fish." [See his blog from 2014, "Nahuatl Names: The Nahuatl names in the 1544 census of Morelos."]

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: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Food, Eating, Cooking
Mouth/Beak Open
Religion (Indigenous)
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
horizontal
Keywords: 

fish, peces, pescado, Cloud Serpents, Serpientes de las Nubes, hunting, cazar

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

michin, fish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/michin

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library,
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&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: 

Mimich (MH521r)

Mimich (MH486v)

Mimich (MH490r)