Quetzalmitl (MH521r)

Quetzalmitl (MH521r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name Quetzalmitl (here attested as a man's name) shows two main elements. One element consists of three, horizontal, green feathers (quetzalli) from the bird of the same name. The other element is a vertical arrow (mitl). The point is down, and it has two barbs. The top of the arrow appears to have a handle. The three green feathers come off the right side of the arrow.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This arrow differs from the autonomous-era arrows (with their sometimes flint points and feather decorations at the top). See below. In this source, quetzal feathers do tend to have a slight wave to them, and they are usually painted green. In the Codex Mendoza, the color is more of a blue-green.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pe^o guetzalmi..

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Quetzalmi[tl]

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood and José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

green (light)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

arrows, flechas, feathers, plumas, verdes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

quetzal(li), quetzal feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
mi(tl), arrow or dart, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Flecha de Pluma de Quetzal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=121&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).

Orthography:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: