Huitzitzilapan (Mdz6r)

Huitzitzilapan (Mdz6r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a blue, yellow, and green drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Huitzitzilapan.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This compound glyph for the place name Huitziltzilapan features a green hummingbird (huitzilin) with raised wings, standing in a water channel or canal (apantli). The upper part of its beak is longer than the lower part. This bird faces to our left. The duplicated syllable in the middle of huitzilin is not featured visually. The gloss for this version of Huitzitzilapan includes the line over the final a, which clarifies its presence, something we assumed should also be applied in the reading of the other glyph for this same town on folio 32 recto.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

huiçiçilapā. pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Huitzitzilapan, pueblo

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Names (places)

Religion (Indigenous)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

cross-sectioned object

profile view

trapezoidal

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

front to back

Keywords:

birds, hummingbirds, water, agua, pájaros, colibríes

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huitzil(in), hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilin
apan(tli), water channel or canal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli
pan(tli), furrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pantli
-apan (locative suffix), on the water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apan-0
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
-pan (locative suffix), on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Karttunen’s Interpretation:

"0n Hummingbird Lake" or "Hummingbird Canal" [Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.]

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

"On the Water of the Hummingbird" (Berdan and Anawalt, 1992, vol. 1, p. 188)

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

"En el Lago del Colibrí" o "En el Canal del Colibrí"

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 6 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 22, of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).