Coatlahuiz (MH535r)

Coatlahuiz (MH535r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Coatlahuiz (“Serpent-Stick,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a thin, vertical stick with a snake or serpent wrapping around it, ending with its head up and looking toward the reader's right. Its bifurcated tongue protrudes. It has shading on the underbelly, giving it a three-dimensionality.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This serpent-stick may be a reference to the axoquen, which was a digging stick used in agriculture that typically had a zoomorphic head, such as a serpent or a bird.

This image is strikingly reminiscent of the Maturandum published in Europe in 1534 (see Boone, 2020, 22).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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:

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

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Tongue Protruding/Noticeable

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

shading and parallel line hatching

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

three-dimensionality

twisted or entwined

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

hoes, coas, digging sticks, serpientes, víboras

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

coa(tl), serpent, snake, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
tlahuiz(tli), see: https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/glifos/cohuatlahuiz

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Serpiente-Palo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 535r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=149&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: