Xochitonal (MH836v)

Xochitonal (MH836v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochitonal (perhaps “Flower’s Solar Animating Force”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a flower with three visible petals and a tripartite base. Three black lines come up through the flower, perhaps intending to delineate the petals’ edges. Off to the right of the flower is a small head from a nenetl (here, probably a deity figurine), seemingly meant to convey tonalli.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The glyphs for Xochitonal generally show flowers, but the tonal part can vary from sunrays to suns with faces. The use of nenetl here seems to point to the definition of deity figurine, given that xochiteotl glyphs occasionally use nenetl for teotl (divinity).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ant^o xochitonal

Gloss Normalization:

Antonio Xochitonal

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:

line connecting elements

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Celestial Phenomena

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Toys

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

figurillas de deidades, flores, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
tonal(li), sun, day, solar animating force, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonalli
nene(tl), doll, deity figurine, or woman’s genitals, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nenetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Flor-Fuerza Animadora del Sol

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 836v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=747&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: