Citlalpopoca (Mxnus43)

Citlalpopoca (Mxnus43)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Citlalpopoca ("Comet," or “He Smokes Like a Star”). The name attested here as a man’s name, and this person is probably named after the famous Citlalpopoca who was one of four rulers in Tlaxcallan. Here, the hieroglyph shows a star with eight points, drawn in a European fashion. Black smoke arises from behind the star.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The contextualizing image shows that Citlalpopoca is dead, given that he is wrapped in a shroud that is tied on.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mexicanus, Codex (Mxnus)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1590

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

central Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Celestial Phenomena

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

shading and parallel line hatching

spiky

tied, bound, or bundled

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

front to back

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

cometas, estrellas humeantes

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Citlalpopoca, a name of a famous ruler in Tlaxcala, and a name taken by other people up to the present day, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Citlalpopoca
citlal(in), star(s); when combined with popoca, a comet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/citlalin-2
popoca, to smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca
citlalin popoca, a comet that lasts a long time, a smoking star, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/citlalin-popoca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Emita Humo como una Cometa, o El Cometa

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15284/?sp=43&st=image. This image is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library, but the manuscript is part of the holdings of Bibliothèque nationale de France and the original source is gallica.bnf.fr/BNF.

Image Source, Rights:

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Historical Contextualizing Image: