James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 238.
a major altepetl, connected with the other and more famous Mexica altepetl, Tenochtitlan
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 238.
down feathers, can form clusters or balls; can be made from turkey breast feathers or possibly heron feathers (white); they have associations with death and human sacrifice Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt, Codex Mendoza (1992), v. 2, 208.