Cuahuilacatzo (MH508v)

Cuahuilacatzo (MH508v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuahuilacatzo ("Log Juggler," attested here as a man's name) shows an undulating double line, something like a tipped-over, backward S. The visual reference seems to be to a cord that could wrap around something, associated with the verb ilacatzoa, to wrap around or entwine. The start of the word, however, refers to wood (cuahuitl) and the sport of juggling wood with one's feet, cuahuilacatzoa.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tezozomoc (1598) refers to the person who plays this sport as cuahuilacatzo. (See the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl entry for the latter.)

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego
guahuilacatzō

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Cuahuilacatzo

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Sports, Games, Leisure
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
Keywords: 

sports, deportes, wood, madera, cordón, nombres de hombres

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

cuahuilacatzoa, to play with logs using feet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuilacatzoa
cuahui(tl), tree, wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuahuitl
ilacatzoa, to wrap around, entwine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ilacatzoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Bailador del Palo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Tezozomoc 1598 (see above)

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 508v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=96&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: 

Huilacatl (MH528r)