Quetzalpopoca (MH542v)

Quetzalpopoca (MH542v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful compound glyph for the personal name Quetzalpopoca ("Smoking Quetzal Feathers") is attested here as a man's name. The reading starts with the three vertical, wavy quetzal feathers. They are painted green. Below the feathers are eight volutes or smoke {popocatl} scrolls. The volutes all curl downward, some to the right and some to the left. Three dabs of red paint suggest a fire from which the smoke curls away.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

fra^co q~tzalpopoca

Gloss Normalization:

Francisco Quetzalpopoca

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:

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

Feathers

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

gray

green (dark)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

vertical, upright

volute(s)

wavy

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

plumas, feathers, fuego, humo, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

quetzal(li), quetzal feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli
popoca, to emit smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 542v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=164&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: