Teoyohua (MH616v)

Teoyohua (MH616v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Teoyohua (perhaps "Possessor of Divinity") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a vertical stone (tetl) with curling ends, which can provides the phonetic start to the name, Te-. In the middle of the stone is a white rectangle (a piece of paper?) with a face on it, the face possibly suggesting a deity (teotl) or divine force, which may represent teoyotl in this name, as the gloss hints.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The gloss gives Teyohua, which may be a distinct name from Teohua, although we have other persons named Teohua in this collection. Teoyohua would represent teoyotl + hua, which seems plausible.

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

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
rectangular
vertical, upright
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inward (from outside in)
Keywords: 

piedras, divinidad, deidades, religión indígena, caras, faces, nombres de hombres

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

teo(tl), the divine, sacred force, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teotl
teoyo(tl), divinity, sacredness, spirituality, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teoyotl
-hua, to have that quality, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Que Tiene Divinidad

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 616v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=315&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: 

teotl (Mdz16v)

Teohua (MH565r)

Teotl (MH575v)

Teotl (MH576r)