Macuilquiyauh (MH753r)

Macuilquiyauh (MH753r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph plus notation for the calendrical name Macuilquiyauh (“Five Rain,” or “5-Rain”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The symplex glyph for rain (quiyahuitl) is the classic triangular stream of water with lines of current and a droplet at the bottom. Next to the sign for rain is the number five, which is shown as five short vertical lines connected with a horizontal line. The same horizontal line connects this number to the rain.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Calendrical names were taken from the pre-contact religious divinatory calendar. The clergy were trying to discourage the use of these names, which may have contributed to some irregularities (perhaps clandestine changes) in the portrayal of the signs and glosses. In this one, the “Macuilquiyauh” gloss is left off, and only the given name “Juan” appears. Sometimes the number would drop away or only the number would appear. The name Macuil, for example, often appears by itself without the companion day name.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

numbers

personal name

Syntax:

line connecting elements

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

tonalpohualli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli
quiyahui(tl), rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cinco Lluvia, o 5-Lluvia

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 753r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=584&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).

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