Temilo (MH486r)

Temilo (MH486r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for a personal name (Temilo) that can also be a title and a noun for a head device or warrior hairstyle (temilotli/temiloctli), features a stone (tetl). The stone is a phonetic indicator for the start of the name, Te-. The stone also has an upside down L-shaped protrusion on the top that echoes the ponytail on top of the head of another Temilo (below), representing the warrior hairstyle of temilotli.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The name Temilo deserves further research. A folklore character named Temilo was associated with Mount Tlaloc and was said--in a twenty-first-century ethnographic retelling--to represent the "devil" and have a role in the construction of the cathedral in Puebla. [See: Jay Sokolovsky, Indigenous Mexico Engages the 21st Century, 2016, p. 151.]

A don Pedro Temilo was the first governor or the Tlatelolco after the Spanish seized power. [See Justyna Olko, Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World, 2014, p. 210.]

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

mrñ temillo

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín Temilo

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
neologisms (visual, glyphic)
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

stones, piedras, headdresses, tocados

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

te(tl), stone https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
temilo(tli), a warrior hairstyle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temilotli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Peinado de Guerrero (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 

Temilo (MH513v)

Temilo (MH491v)

Temilo (MH652v)

Temilo (MH762r)