Ecapapalotl (MH833r)

Ecapapalotl (MH833r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ecapapalotl (“Wind-Butterfly,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a butterfly (papalotl) with its wings spread. The butterfly has a man's head in profile, facing right, and in his mouth is the wind blowing device associated with the divine force of the wind, Ehecatl.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

James Lockhart also came up with the translation for this name as "Wind Butterfly." He lists it in his book The Nahuas (1992, 120) as a "poetic metaphor" for Quetzalcoatl. He is even referring to Francisco Ecapapalotl, the same name as appears in the gloss for this hieroglyph.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

fraco ecapapalotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Ecapapalotl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
deity name/theonym
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

butterflies, mariposas, wind, viento, deidades, deities, divine forces, fuerzas divinas, aire, aliento, Quetzalcoatl, serpiente emplumado, nombres de hombres

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

eca(tl), breath, air, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl
Ehecatl, wind, or the divine force of the wind, a deity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehecatl
papalo(tl), butterfly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/papalotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Aire o Viento-Mariposa

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 833r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=740&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: 

Ecapapalotl (MH566v)