Tezcatlipoca (TR3v)

Tezcatlipoca (TR3v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This example of iconography has as its focus a presentation of Tezcatlipoca. It is included for the purpose of identifying details that can be compared to hieroglyphs, such as green feathers called quetzalli, a red and white tecpatl (flint knife), a war shield (chimalli) and arrows (mitl), and atlatl (spear thrower), and so much more.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tezcaltlipoca

Gloss Normalization:

Tezcatlipoca

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

deity name/theonym

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Movement

Religion (Indigenous)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

plumas, tecpatl, flint knife, cuchillo, feathers, deidades, deities, fuerzas divinas, divinidades, mirrors, espejos

Museum & Rare Book Comparisons:

Museum/Rare Book Notes:

A stone carving representing Tezcatlipoca, Smoking Mirror, found in the Museo de Escultura Mexica, Tlalnepantla, Mexico. Photograph by Stephanie Wood, 16 August 2023.

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tezcatlipoca, supreme divine force, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezcatlipoca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Espejo Humeante (una fuerza divina)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 3 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f32.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

The non-commercial reuse of images from the Bibliothèque nationale de France is free as long as the user is in compliance with the legislation in force and provides the citation: “Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France” or “Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.”