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amalacatl.

Headword: 
amalacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a whirlpool
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer (2004), "tourbillon d'eau." https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/amalacatl/40518

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents amalacatl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

A gift of many cloaks with different designs, including one called amalacayo, were given to Spaniards arriving on ships.
Historia de la Conquista de México, ed. James Lockhart (1993), 59. See also the Digital Florentine Codex, searching amalacayoh, such as: https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/225r/images/0a8c15a8-8c7....

themes: 
Water
See also: 
atl.
malacatl.