Chalmecatl (MH506r)

Chalmecatl (MH506r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnic origin if a man named Diego Chalmecatl. He may be from a town called Chalma (today). The glyph shows a shape that vaguely recalls the "beak" of Ehecatl, facing toward the viewer's left. This element might be intended to represent the suffix of the name -ecatl, given that Ehecatl names are often glossed as Ecatl. The Chalm- root, however, does not seem to appear visually, unless Ehecatl has a semantic connection to Chalma, a famous pilgrimage site since the autonomous era.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Gabrielle Vail and ‎Christine Hernández (Re-Creating Primordial Time, 2013, ) describe Ehecatl as the wind aspect of Quetzalcoatl, and they note that Ehecatl "wears a buccal (duck) mask through which to blow wind." That the "beak" may have been perceived as a blowing device is supported by the glyph for Pitztli (below).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

diego
chalmecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Chalmecatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

deity name/theonym

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Religion (Indigenous)

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

pointed (see also spiky)

rectangular

Keywords:

etnicidades, deidades, divinities, deities

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Chalmecacihuatl, a deity; "Woman of the Chalmeca (inhabitants of Chalman, today called Chalma)", https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalmecacihuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Una Persona de Chalma

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 506r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=91&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: