Chical (MH500v)

Chical (MH500v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chical (here, attested as a man’s name) shows a round, spiny cactus, perhaps a biznaga or a nochtli. It has two, curving, vertical lines that suggest some three-dimensional shape to the sphere. It also has a short stem at the base of the sphere. The name Chical may be short for chicalotl, a thorny plant.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Thorny plants have a draw for their potential as having spines that could be used in bloodletting. On manuscripts painted in colors, such spines will often be red and white, with the red sometimes giving the suggestion of blood.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Sanctos
chical

Gloss Normalization: 

Santos Chical

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
curving, curvy, curved
dotted, granular, textured
spiny
three-dimensionality
Keywords: 

cactus, cacti, prickly pear, nopalli, espinas, spines, thorns

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

chicalo(tl), a thorny plant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicalotl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 500v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=80&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: 

nochtli (MH491r)

nochtli (MH485r)

nochtli (Mdz38r)

nochtli (Mdz43r)

huitztli (Mdz47r)

Huitznahuatl (MH515r)