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Mimixcoa.

Headword: 
Mimixcoa.
Principal English Translation: 

"prototypical sacrificial victims" (referring to the work of Guilem Olivier, 2010); in the story of the First Sacred War, the Mimixcoa fail to find food for the emerging sun, and so they are sacrificed; quail were sacrificed, too, for failing to "guess the direction of" the sun's appearance

Elena Mazzetto, "Quail in the Religious Life of the Ancient Nahuas," in Susan Milbrath and Elizabeth Baquedano, eds., Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023, 204.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)
Weather, Climate
See also: 
Mixcoatl.