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icel azcatl.

Headword: 
icel azcatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of ant (see the Florentine Codex, which includes a painting); also a personal name (see Chimalpahin)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 95r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/95r/images/85e10320-d... Accessed 4 November 2025.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Icel Azcatl = the son of Huehue Tezozomoctli and Tzihuacxochitzin (of Malinalco); this man lived as a nobleman in Azcapotzalco (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 110–111.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Politics, Power, Governance
See also: 
azcatl.
icel.