a divine force, usually translated as Cloud Serpent; possibly also (when not capitalized) a reference to a tornado (see attestations)
See an image that represents Mixcoatl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
a divine force, usually translated as Cloud Serpent; said in the Florentine Codex to be the only divine force worshipped by the Chichimecs (Sahagún); also, a personal name taken by Nahua men
Seen as the name of a fifteen-year-old (gender not specified), Miscovatl (i.e. Mixcoatl), in the sixteenth century in what is now the state of Morelos, Mexico. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
In juh ipan mjtoa, ce iaomjquj, in telpuchtepitzin iaomjqujco mexico, in vexotzincatl itoca Mixcoatl = Thus is it said of one who died in war, a small youth who came to die in war in Mexico. He was an inhabitant of Uexotzinco named Mixcoatl (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
franco. mixcoatl (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Also a plentiful name in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco.
Frances Krug captures four examples of references in the annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley to a tornado mixpantli that raced across the sky in 1525, 1526, and/or 1544. In one record, tetzauh (from tetzahuatl, a swirling river) seems to be used in a parallel construction. Also, in a fifth entry, instead of mixpantli, the tlacuilos uses mixcoatl. (SW)