Coacuech (MH771r)

Coacuech (MH771r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Coacuech ("Snake's Rattle") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows the lower end of a snake (coatl), which is dotted, and then three connected rattles (coacuechtli). The rattles look like a string of small hearts.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

National Geographic notes that there are more than 24 species of rattlesnake. The rattler is found in many coatl glyphs. Sometimes it is highlighted by being painted with a color. For example, the glyph for Chontal Coatlan has a serpent with a turquoise-blue rattle. See below.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p^o govacuech

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Coacuech (or Cohuacuech)

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Sensory Perception

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

segmented

curving, curvy, curved

dotted, granular, textured

bird's eye view

horizontal

Keywords:

serpientes, cascabeles, nombres de hombres, sonido

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

coacuech(tli), a snake's rattle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coacuechtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cascabel de Serpiente

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 771r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=616&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

"q" for c

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: