Citlalpopoca (MH784v)

Citlalpopoca (MH784v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Citlalpopoca ("Comet" or, literally, "The Star Smokes") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph includes and eight-point star (suggesting European stylistic influence). Drifting off to the viewer's right from the star are curls of smoke (for popoca, it smokes).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This person might have been named after the famous Citlalpopoca who was one of four rulers in Tlaxcallan.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

a^ol Çitlalpopocā

Gloss Normalization:

Alonso Citlalpopoca

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Celestial Phenomena

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

pointed (see also spiky)

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

nombres de hombres, nombres de personas famosas, gobernantes, estrellas, humo

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:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 784v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=643&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).

Orthography:

"çi" for ci

intrusive overbar

Historical Contextualizing Image: