Mizyaotl (MH871v)

Mizyaotl (MH871v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mizyaotl (perhaps “Cougar Combatant”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of the head of a mountain lion and, above that, a war shield with the cross (x) and U-shapes in the four segments.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This combination is unusual in this collection (with 6K records so far). But the name Mizyaotl is attested in census records from what is now Morelos (as seen in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary). Given that jaguars have warrior associations, it is not surprising that a cougar could have a similar ferocity. In his blog (2014) Magnus Pharao Hansen translates the name as “Cat Enemy ” (https://nahuatlstudies.blogspot.com/2014/), but Lockhart argues that yaotl as a name was closer to combatant than enemy, and miztli is more of a domesticated cat today, but not in the sixteenth century.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

luys . mizyaotl .

Gloss Normalization: 

Luis Mizyaotl

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: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
cross (x)
frontal view
tripartite
U-shapes (any direction)
X-shapes
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

gatos feroces, pumas, combatientes, mountain lions, cougars, nombres de hombres

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

Mizyaotl, a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mizyaotl
mizt(tli), a wild cat or mountain lion, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miztli
yao(tl), enemy or combatant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Puma Combatiente

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 871v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=815&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: 
"y" for i
intrusive period
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Miztli (MH499r)

miztli (MH486r)

miztli (MH497v)

Miztlatoa (MH524r)