Xochiquetzal (MH632v)

Xochiquetzal (MH632v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochiquetzal (perhaps "Flower-Quetzal Feather") is attested here as a woman's name. It has two elements, including a flower (xochitl) that is upright, has three visible petals, a stem and a leaf, and to the left of the flower, apparently one quetzal feather (quetzalli).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Xochiquetzal ("Flower Quetzal-Feather") is a patron deity associated with the trecena 19 of the divinatory calendar. [See: Eloise Quiñnones Keber (Codex Telleriano-Remensis, 1995, 187–188) for a discussion about the various ethnohistorical interpretations of Xochiquetzal, some of which are conflicting and confusing.] Xochiquetzal is also a nickname for the xicalpapalotl swallowtail butterfly. [See: Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, f. 100r., https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/100r/images/0.] See below for other examples of quetzal feathers. They are rarely this spiky, but this is the graphic style of at least one tlacuilo from Huejotzingo.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

maria
xochiq~tzal

Gloss/Text Normalization:

María Xochiquetzal

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

deity name/theonym

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Birds

Animals: Insects & Bugs

Feathers

Flowers

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

viudas, nombres de mujeres, flores, plumas, quetzales

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
quetzal(li), quetzal feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quetzalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Flor-Pluma de Quetzal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=347&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: